Fun Facts on Water For Children

Copyright (c) 2008 Steven MagillHere is a simple experiment involving water for
Teaching kids about water can be very fun. There arechildren.
a lot of simple scientific experiments you can do thatTo show how water moves throughout plants (thanks
centre around water and children love to learn aboutto capillary action), place a celery stalk into a glass of
how something as common as water is so importantwater that has been colored with food coloring (don't
and so interesting. There are plenty of lessons onuse 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 waterA quick search through the internet will reveal many
Trees are two thirds waterfun (and easy) experiments with water for children.
The water that is on the Earth now is made up of theThese experiments include making water bend, making
same minerals and elements that made up the waterwater flow upstream, the demonstration of
that was on the planet while the dinosaurs weredisplacement 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 ahow 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 oneegg 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 bywater and much more.
siphoning it out of the tops of jars in which theyTeaching children about water is fun and interesting.
collected the water from the Nile River. They wouldWater is something that all kids know about so learning
allow the mud from the Nile to settle in the bottom ofabout 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 boillessons 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 ofprocess. Kids love learning that water is good for
Altona Germany from dying of cholera-the people inmore than drinking, washing and swimming. They love
Hamburg (who did not filter their water) were not sousing it in other experiments and learning about how it
lucky.is important.
Water is the only substance on earth that transcendsThe average US citizen uses between eighty and one
all three states of physical matter-gas, liquid and solid.hundred gallons of water each day.