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Purpose:
Use a 2-liter soda bottle to model concepts related to ground water, aquifers, and hydrology.
Summary:
Students will use capillary action to create an aquifer and study how water flows into the ground to become ground water through a recharge system.
Objectives Links:
C. Human activities and the environment
Process Skills Checklist
Materials:
(water, 50 pounds of dry play sand per class, collection bottle, 2 2-liter clear bottles with formed bottoms, plastic film canister, metric ruler, permanent marker, scissors, water-based marker, food coloring)
Aquifer model:
- sand
- marked collection bottle/model bottle
- water
- food dye
- paper
- large beaker to hold model bottle before assembled to collection bottle
- small piece of screen
Recharge Zone model:
- marked model and collection bottles
- sand
- food dye
- water
- plastic film canister with bottom cut off
- paper
Safety Concerns:
Do not use construction sand, as it can harbor infectious disease.
Revision Date:
Summer 2001
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