1. Water Cycle Simulation
Each person needs a worksheet and a die.
Report to a first station. Dakota’s table and Alaina’s table and Stryker’s table all start at oceans (why?)
Circle your starting station
Each student is to roll their die.
Based upon the number rolled, the student turns the that numbered card over to determine their progress in the water cycle.
If told to move, on your worksheet, draw an arrow from your starting location to the new position. Label that arrowhead with a number one (1). The student then moves to their new location.
If told to stay at their current position, students place a number one (1) inside the drawn circle.
Each student rolls their die again.
If told to move, on their worksheet, draw an arrow from the current location to the new position. Label that arrowhead with a number one (2). The student then moves to their new location.
If told to stay at the current position, students write a number two (2) at the current location.
Repeat the die roll and move procedure up to a total of ten (10) times.

2. Step 2 - analysis
Most students should have traveled to several stations and have completed some sort of a cycle. Some students may have traveled through most of the water cycle while others have moved very little. There also may be a student or two who remained in the ocean through all ten turns. Which are you?
While this exercise is to be somewhat realistic, in actuality it is far more complicated to leave the ocean via evaporation due to the fact that nearly all of the earth's water is confined to the oceans. It actually would take close to 3,600 rolls of the die before just one person would move to the atmosphere station via evaporation.
This exercise also does not take into consideration human and animal interactions with the water cycle. The water humans and animals consume is stored and then eventually eliminated or it evaporates (via perspiration).

3. Tell the story – Creative writing
Write a short story about your ‘drop’ journey.
Create a graphic story/comic strip of the journey
Write an epic poem describing the journey.