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EnchantedLearning.com Readers' Theater Script: Water Cycle Adventure**
 * This 10-minute readers' theater play traces [|water in its never-ending cycle]. Students read the script as they perform the play. Neither props nor scenery is necessary. There are 19 characters, but in a small class, students can easily play more than one part. The students could even write their own water cycle adventure.**

Ocean water drop 1 Ocean water drop 2 Water vapor 1 Water vapor 2 Cloud Snowflake 1 || Snowflake 2 Glacier ice 1 Glacier ice 2 Stream water 1 Stream water 2 River water 1 River water 2 || Reservoir water 1 Reservoir water 2 Tap water 1 Tap water 2 Water in drain pipe Sewage processing plant ||
 * **Cast**: ||
 * Sun (who is also the narrator)
 * The Sun**: Our story starts in the ocean. We are watching two drops of water.
 * Ocean water drop 1**: It's getting hot here in the ocean - I don't think I can swim any more. I'm feeling light and airy! I think the Sun's doing it to me.
 * The Sun**: I can't help it - I'm hot and full of energy. That's what I do, and I do it so well, don't I?
 * Ocean water drop 2**: Yes, you do, but I think I'm getting dizzy and there isn't even a whirlpool here. I'm feeling so strange! I think I'll just float for a while - no more swimming for me.
 * Ocean water drop 1**: Uh oh! You're not floating in the water anymore, you're floating in the air - you're not a drop of water either - you're water vapor now.
 * Water Vapor 1**: What's water vapor?
 * Water Vapor 2**: It's water, but it's a gas. You've evaporated and turned into a gas - and so have I. Let's fly up high!
 * Water Vapor 1**: I feel like joining the others and forming a crowd.
 * Water Vapor 2**: I think you mean a cloud, not a crowd. Okay, let's condense.
 * Water Vapor 1**: What does that mean?
 * Water Vapor 2**: Condensing means that we'll change back into a liquid (water, of course). Then we'll be part of a cloud.
 * Cloud**: Okay, now we're a beautiful, fluffy cloud. Let's fly over the land and watch the goats. Take a look at those beautiful mountains! But now I'm feeling heavy and cold. I think I'm going to snow!
 * Snowflake 1**: Hey, what's got six arms and there's nothing exactly like it in the whole world?
 * Snowflake 2**: Me - I'm so special. You, too, of course. We're both snowflakes. Hey, where are you going now?
 * Snowflake 1**: I can't stop falling - you're falling too. But where are we going?
 * Snowflake 2**: Down.
 * Snowflake 1**: Thanks - I knew that. It looks like we're taking a trip to the mountains. I hope you know how to ski.
 * Snowflake 2**: Well, it looks like we're stuck on a glacier - I wonder why they're called rivers of ice.
 * Glacier Ice 1**: I'm getting crushed here. Now I'm ice - this is NOT my favorite part of the water cycle.
 * Glacier Ice 2**: We're only moving at about one foot a year. This is going to be soooooo boring - it's a long way to the bottom.
 * Glacier Ice 1**: You'd better get used to it, we're stuck on this glacier for a while.


 * The Sun**: A long, long, long time later, two very bored drops of water emerge from the bottom of the glacier. I haven't been much help to them lately.
 * Stream water 1**: Wow, I've finally melted!
 * Stream water 2**: Me too - I'm free at last. What a change, we were practically standing still, and now we're shooting the rapids.
 * Stream water 1**: Watch out for that rock! And that waterfall!
 * Stream water 2**: Ouch! I've had enough of this. Can we go home now?
 * Stream water 1**: We don't have a home. At least we're out of the mountains. The water's getting deeper. What's going on here?
 * River water 1**: You can slow down now - we're in a river. And we're getting warmer.
 * River water 2**: I like this. Not too fast and not too slow.
 * River water 1**: Let's go down this side stream - it looks clear and clean.
 * Reservoir water 1**: Okay. We're in a reservoir now - we'll be flowing through huge pipes soon - I've been here before.
 * Reservoir water 2**: Here they are. It's dark and spooky in these pipes. How do we get out of here?
 * Reservoir water 1**: Just go with the flow.
 * Tapwater 1**: There's a light at the end of the tap - we're in a sink. Eew - that kid is brushing her teeth!
 * Tapwater 2**: I hope she doesn't drink us - it's really weird when that happens.
 * Tapwater 2**: Whew, that was a close call. Looks like we're whirlpooling down the drain. Hold your nose!
 * Water in drain pipe**: More dark pipes - but these pipes are really smelly. We must be in the sewer under the city. Boy do I need to take a bath.
 * Sewage processing plant**: I heard that. I'm a sewage processing plant. You've come to the right place. I'm so amazing that I can even give bath water a bath! Now you're all filtered and clean - just take that pipe to the sea.


 * Ocean water drop 1**: We're finally back in the ocean. You know, I've done this trip a million times, and every time it's different.
 * Ocean water drop 2**: I was well water in Washington once.
 * Ocean water drop 1**: I was in a typhoon in Thailand twice.
 * Ocean water drop 2**: I was rain in Rwanda.
 * Ocean water drop 1**: I was snow in Siberia.
 * Ocean water drop 2**: We've all been snow in Siberia. But I was in a puddle in Pakistan.
 * Ocean water drop 1**: I was in a lake in Louisiana.
 * Ocean water drop 2**: I was in a swamp in Switzerland.
 * Ocean water drop 1**: There are no swamps in Switzerland. But a long, long time ago, I was sleet that fell on the snout of a T. rex.
 * Ocean water drop 2**: Showoff. I rained on a plain in Spain, and I seeped through the soil. and went into a cave, and was groundwater for 500 years.
 * Ocean water drop 1**: Boooorrrrrring.
 * Sun**: Hi there! It's me again. Did you miss me? I know you did.
 * Ocean water drop 1**: I feel so hot and dizzy!
 * Ocean water drop 2**: Oh no, it's starting all over again!
 * Ocean water drop 1**: I wonder where we'll go this time?

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