Positives

• Students can listen to the narration of the article as well.
• Students can click the "i" icon to learn more about certain terms or concepts.

Additional Prerequisites

• Teachers may want to go over the following terms before reading the text: pre-industrial, volatile, crucial, porous, contours, saturation, transpire, capacity, deluge, erratic, turbulent, and frenetic.

Differentiation

• Teachers could project any of the four diagrams on the board and ask students to write a short paragraph describing what is happening to the water molecules. Students could swap paragraphs and compare and contrast the two paragraphs.
• In small groups, students could make a list of the ways that climate change has interrupted the water cycle.
• Biology classes and chemistry classes could use this resource to connect climate change to lessons about states of matter, hydrogen bonds, the water cycle, or the effects of temperature on molecules.
  
• Other resources on this topic include this worksheet from NASA on the water cycle, this video on the global water crisis, and this video on the roles of water in Earth's surface processes.