I'm using this lesson as a whole class, so resources slightly change depending on the context of what the student is doing for the assessment. But regardless of what they are doing, they need to have a concept of cycles and relationships, cause and effect. 

The water cycle activity - split the classroom into four zones based on the spheres of Earth (land, animals, ocean, atmosphere). Give different description activities to get people to move while having an image of the water cycle on the board. Then talk about how we make and simply images can result in misconspections. I have a folder for some good ones that I use with the first one being the one that the design causes misconceptions.) Just a good way to for them to think about how information is communicated. 

For task #5, print the periodic table trends on A3 and then slice row-way and column-way. Some students will have rows, some will have periods. They have to look at each other's work to see the patterns. Here are the answers for teachers when use when giving notes.