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