Homework and home learning tasks for Year 6 Geography, mastering evaporation and condensation in the water cycle.
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Evaporation is when water turns into vapour, and condensation is when that vapour cools and turns back into liquid water.
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What’s Included
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• Key Definitions Section: Clear definitions for evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.
• The Puddle Scenario: A real-world task where pupils explain what happens to a puddle using the correct scientific terms.
• Biography of a Droplet: A creative narrative task where pupils track a water drop from the Atlantic Ocean to a mountain top.
• Challenge/Extension Task: A research task on transpiration and the role of plants in the water cycle.
• Teacher’s Post-Task Briefing: A mark scheme with model answers for the puddle scenario and droplet narrative.

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How to Use It
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1. Assign the Puddle Scenario for homework so pupils apply what they’ve learned to something they see every day.
2. Use the Key Definitions section before writing, so pupils have the vocabulary they need for the narrative task.
3. Share the Biography of a Droplet as a plenary, so pupils can hear each other’s use of words like ‘accumulation’ and ‘transpiration’.

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Curriculum Coverage
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• KS2 National Curriculum — Geography (Year 6): Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including the global water cycle.
• KS2 National Curriculum — Geography (Year 6): Distinguish between evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.

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Last updated: 1 July 2026
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File Includes
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PDF file included.