Create a blog entry entitled, "Watery Earth Lesson 5 - Learning About Groundwater."
Here are the directions for today's activity.
Write your prediction & first observation here, take a screen shot, and then post it on your blog entry.
Record your observations here, take a screen shot, and then post it on your blog entry.
Answer the following reflection/synthesis questions in your blog entry:
Write your prediction & first observation here, take a screen shot, and then post it on your blog entry.
Record your observations here, take a screen shot, and then post it on your blog entry.
Answer the following reflection/synthesis questions in your blog entry:
- Where did all the water that you poured into your cup go?
- How does this model simulate what really happens to groundwater in the world? (How does water get underground? Where is water stored underground?)
- Based on this experiment, what can happen to a drop of water after it falls on the ground?
- Do you think humans use groundwater? If so, what do we use groundwater for?
- How do humans get groundwater to the surface? Is this easy to do?
- Do you think groundwater can move anywhere else? Where? How does it move?
- How have your ideas about what happens to a drop of water changed since you started learning more about groundwater?