Condensation/Evaporation resources

Using diagrams of 6 different common situations, students are asked to identify each situation as evaporation, condensation, or neither.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Students answer 2 multiple choice questions about condensation. The assessment focus is on identifying where the condensation has come from.

This task assesses students' understanding of the states of matter by requiring them to draw and label diagrams of water as a solid, liquid , and gas.

Task: Describe where water goes when washing is drying and from a swimming pool, and discuss factors that affect this process. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Task: Students draw to show their ideas about what happens when a puddle dries up. Assessment focus: evaporation.

Task: Students make predictions about evaporation rates of instances where surface areas are a factor, select which variable is being investigated in both examples and explain their answer. Assessment focus: Using knowledge of surface area to make predictions.

Task: Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers and compare to the water cycle. Assessment focus: evaporation, the water cycle.