The joy of jumping in puddles and sticking your tongue out to catch rain drops is shared by many children, but the children at Morton Mains Nursery in Edinburgh, part of the Bright Horizons group, took it one step further and investigated how the water cycle works. As their interest deepened, they undertook a range of scientific experiments, studied clouds, received a visit from a civil engineer and even raised money for an international development charity.
The children became increasingly interested in rain after reading Once There Was a Raindrop by Judith Anderson. The title explains how falling rain flows into drains and streams and finally into the sea before the sun then heats the water, causing some of it to rise into the atmosphere, where once again it falls as rain or snow.
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