Evaporation Experiments

Today we started to discuss water and and did some water experiments. We started by painting a picture with water. As the kids painted they started to notice that the water was disappearing. They then brainstormed where it could be going and came up with a few ideas. After some discussion the kids determined that it was disappearing and going into the sky. I then introduced them to the term evaporation. We discussed that evaporation is liquid water changing into a gas called water vapor. To follow up the kids observed a humidifier changing the water into vapor. They enjoyed doing both experiments and can't wait to see how much water is left on this papers and in the humidifier in the morning. Thursday we will be moving on to what happens to water next!