Imagine that you are a drop of water.

• Where would you like to travel?
• As water moves through its “cycles” we find that it can be found anywhere.
• Think of all the places that water is found?
  • Did you think of plants, animals, underground aquifers or icebergs?
• Hydrologists (people who study water) are always watching and studying water. They check for snow pack in the mountains and monitor the streams during spring run-off.

Where in Utah is water salty found? Where else could you find salty water? The great Salt Lake is the saltiest lake in the world! Do you know why? Look at a map of Utah and list the rivers flowing in and out of the great Salt Lake. When the salty water evaporates only the salt remains. If you wanted to travel as a water molecule a good spot to begin would be here.

As you evaporate from the Great Salt Lake you travel high into the sky and change into a gas. You soon form a cumulous cloud. The wind from the west blows you into the Wasatch Mountains. It’s cold there. You fall from the sky in the form of snow (precipitation.) There you rest until May. The sun finds you and you melt. You sink deep into the ground then bubble up into a mountain spring. Finish this story. Where else could you travel? Who or what would drink from the spring or would you again evaporate?

Use a map of Utah to find locations where you would like to go. Remember you can be different types of precipitation.

GO THERE!