| Copyright (c) 2008 Steven Magill | | | | Here is a simple experiment involving water for |
| Teaching kids about water can be very fun. There | | | | children. |
| are a lot of simple scientific experiments you can do | | | | To show how water moves throughout plants |
| that centre around water and children love to learn | | | | (thanks to capillary action), place a celery stalk into a |
| about how something as common as water is so | | | | glass of water that has been colored with food |
| important and so interesting. There are plenty of | | | | coloring (don't use green food coloring). A celery stalk |
| lessons on water for children. | | | | that is starting to wither works best. Your kids can |
| Here are a few fun facts on water for children: | | | | watch as the water moves into and through the |
| The human brain in two thirds water | | | | celery stalk. |
| Trees are two thirds water | | | | A quick search through the internet will reveal many |
| The water that is on the Earth now is made up of | | | | fun (and easy) experiments with water for children. |
| the same minerals and elements that made up the | | | | These experiments include making water bend, |
| water that was on the planet while the dinosaurs | | | | making water flow upstream, the demonstration of |
| were wandering around. | | | | displacement and many others. Kids will learn how |
| A person can live without food for a few weeks but | | | | water affects the air around it, parts of the body |
| a person can only live without water for a few days. | | | | and how all sorts of other "absolutes" can be |
| The average US citizen uses between eighty and one | | | | demonstrated with water. Kids can learn how to fit |
| hundred gallons of water each day. | | | | an egg through a bottle opening without using their |
| The people in ancient Egypt treated their water by | | | | hands, how to make a cork float in the center of a |
| siphoning it out of the tops of jars in which they | | | | pool of water and much more. |
| collected the water from the Nile River. They would | | | | Teaching children about water is fun and interesting. |
| allow the mud from the Nile to settle in the bottom | | | | Water is something that all kids know about so |
| of the jars and then take the water from the top. | | | | learning about how it works, what it is good for and |
| The father of medicine, Hippocrates, told people to | | | | how it affects them is naturally intriguing. These |
| boil their water and strain it before drinking it. | | | | won't be lessons children have trouble relating to. |
| Filtering water in the late 1800s kept the people of | | | | Learning about water for children is always a fun and |
| Altona Germany from dying of cholera-the people in | | | | entertaining process. Kids love learning that water is |
| Hamburg (who did not filter their water) were not so | | | | good for more than drinking, washing and swimming. |
| lucky. | | | | They love using it in other experiments and learning |
| Water is the only substance on earth that transcends | | | | about how it is important. |
| all three states of physical matter-gas, liquid and solid. | | | | |