Welcome to Kid’s Water World, where kids can learn about water, how we use it everyday, how to be resourceful with water and enjoy learning. Have FUN!
Below are 3 documents that can be printed out to play and learn more about water.
Videos & Games
Games
- Tip the Tank - Brought to you by: http://wateruseitwisely.com
Fun Facts
Did you know....
75 % of the earth is covered with water.- 97 % of earth’s water is in the oceans. Only 3 % of the earth’s water can be used as drinking water. 75 % of the world’s fresh water is frozen in the polar ice caps.
- Although a person can live without food for more than a month, a person can only live without water for approximately one week.
- The average person in the United States uses 80 to 100 gallons of water each day. During medieval times a person used only 5 gallons per day.
- It takes 2 gallons to brush your teeth, 2 to 7 gallons to flush a toilet, and 25 to 50 gallons to take a shower.
- It takes about 1 gallon of water to process a quarter pound of hamburger.
- It takes 2,072 gallons of water to make four new tires.
- Sources of water pollution include: oil spills, fertilizer and agricultural run-off, sewage, stormwater, and industrial wastes.
- One gallon of water is equal to 3.785 liters of water.
- One cubic foot of water is equal to 7.48 gallons of water.
- Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit or 100 degrees Celsius.
- Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius.
Experiments
Make an Egg Float
YOU WILL NEED:
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- Egg in its shell (it can be boiled or raw)
- Glass of water, almost full
- Teaspoon
- Salt
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PROCESS:
Carefully put the egg into the almost-full glass of water. The egg will sink.
Pour in two heaping teaspoons of salt and stir it around the egg.
Keep stirring in salt, two teaspoons at a time, until the egg starts to rise.
EXPLANATION?
Salt water is denser than fresh water. When water becomes salty enough, the egg weighs less than the water—so the egg floats to the top.
Make A Vortex Tornado
YOU WILL NEED:
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- 2 2-liter clear plastic pop bottles (empty and clean)
- water
- 1-inch metal washer
- duct tape or you can go to a science store and get a ‘tornado tube’ that will connect the 2 2-liter bottles together
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PROCESS:
Fill one of the bottles two-thirds full of water
Place the metal washer or twist the ‘tornado tube’ over the opening of the bottle
Turn the second bottle upside down and place it on the washer or twist it on the ‘tornado tube’
Use the duct tape to fasten the two containers and the metal washer together. Make sure to tape tightly to make sure that no water will leak out when you turn the bottle over. If you use the ‘tornado tube’, just twist together tightly.
Turn the tornado maker, so that the bottle with the water is on top. Swirl the bottle in a circular motion. A tornado will form in the top bottle as the water rushes into the bottom bottle.
*If you want to get creative, you can also use food coloring to make the tornado have a color and glitter to represent debris.
EXPLANATION?
The swirling motion you give the bottle forms a vortex and is a easy way to create your own tornado.