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