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