Filtering Water Experiment

Kinetic Kid has been working on an environmental science unit in preparation for his

 "Save Our Earth" event in the Science Olympiad competition this year. Well this week we have been delving into water contamination and safe drinking water. He has been experimenting with various methods of filtering dirty water.

We have been using common materials you can easily find anywhere from your kitchen pantry and backyard to your local big box store. Here is a list of the items we used for the experiment.

Materials

Clear/ Transparent Plastic Cups

Coffee Filters

Activated Carbon(You can find this in the pet isle they use it for fish tanks.)

Sand

small pebbles/rocks

dirt

oil

Knife or Sharp Point( This is to cut a hole in the bottom of the cups.)

In addition to creating our own filtration system we also worked on a

                                                     4M Clean Water Science kit as well. 

Take a look at our video for how ideas on how to put together the filter.