The Water Cycle — a classroom walkthrough | made with ngram

About the video

This video was created by ngram to explain the water cycle using a labeled diagram and a clear, step-by-step narration. The video opens on a full slide of the diagram before walking through each stage in sequence: evaporation from the ocean as the sun warms the water, vapor rising and cooling into clouds, wind carrying moisture over land, precipitation falling as rain or snow, surface runoff flowing into rivers and lakes, groundwater soaking into soil and slowly moving back toward the ocean, and plants releasing water through evapotranspiration. The narration ties each stage back to the arrows on the diagram, reinforcing that these processes form one connected, continuous cycle rather than separate events. The video closes by returning to the full diagram, giving viewers a final overview of how all the stages fit together. Built with HTML/CSS motion graphics in a 16:9 format, the piece uses eight short scenes that mirror the structure of the script, so each concept — evaporation, cloud formation, precipitation, runoff, groundwater, and evapotranspiration — gets its own clearly labeled moment before returning to the full system view. The result is a concise classroom resource suited to introducing or reviewing the water cycle.