This lesson will help your students answer the question:
What can I do to make clean water?
In this lesson, students will
– Design and build their own water filtering system.
– Collect data to compare water before and after filtering.
– Develop a conclusion based upon the results of this experiment.
– Compare individual results to class results to look for patterns.
Cleaning Water Activity
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For students [315KB PDF file] en español
The Cleaning Water Activity is the lesson that accompanies Where Would a Space Explorer Find Water and Oxygen?, one of the topics in the 21st Century Explorer series.
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