Watery Earth lesson 5- Learning About Groundwater

1. Where did all the water that you poured into your cup go?
2. How does this model simulate what really happens to groundwater in the world? (How does water get underground? Where is water stored underground?)
3. Based on this experiment, what can happen to a drop of water after it falls on the ground?
4. Do you think humans use groundwater? If so, what do we use groundwater for?
5. How do humans get groundwater to the surface?  Is this easy to do?
6. Do you think groundwater can move anywhere else? Where? How does it move?
7. How have your ideas about what happens to a drop of water changed since you started learning more about groundwater?

Through the sand and coffee filter and then into the bottom of the cup.

Water soaks through dirt and sand and clay until it gets through to bedrock.


It can sink all the way though to bedrock.

I think we can use it for filtering and then daily water uses.

I do not think it can move anywhere else and it moves by percolating.

Because I thought it just sank into the ground and stayed there.