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