So if people don't have any freshwater nearby, what do they do?
We had a BIG classroom discussion today about this, and came up with the following ways in which people might get clean water that don't live near a source:
1. Wells
2. Snow/hail melts
3. Water tanks
4. Water towers
5. Human-made "lakes" or "reservoirs" that catch rainwater
6. The ground
7. Rain water "catchers" that are different from lakes/reservoirs
8. Pipes that travel really far from lakes/rivers
9. Trucks/planes that transport water
10. Saltwater treatment plants
We are pushing to see more about this water in the ground, knowing that transporting water miles and miles either above or below the ground has to be time-consuming and expensive. We also didn't see a lot of snow year round on our government maps of the US, so this doesn't seem likely (maybe in Greenland or Antarctica where there is snow year-round). We know that water tanks and towers hold water, but how does it get in there? This led us to thinking about water in the ground. Many students brought up digging in the sand at the beach, and eventually finding water. Maybe this is the case for everywhere? That everywhere has water in the ground?
So for investigation ideas, students came up the following:
1. Find an expert who lives somewhere where there is no freshwater nearby and ask them where their water comes from. Mrs. Brinza has some acquaintances she met at a teacher workshop this summer in KS and OK she will reach out to and see if they know.
2. Digging holes in the ground would be hard. So maybe someone else has done this? We'll turn to some videos to help us with this as there are all kinds of interesting people who film all kinds of things. There has to be a video somewhere of someone digging for water not near the beach.
3. And lastly, if there are maps for above the ground, there has to be some maps for below the ground! Underground maps might help us identify if there are places with water underground!
We had a BIG classroom discussion today about this, and came up with the following ways in which people might get clean water that don't live near a source:
1. Wells
2. Snow/hail melts
3. Water tanks
4. Water towers
5. Human-made "lakes" or "reservoirs" that catch rainwater
6. The ground
7. Rain water "catchers" that are different from lakes/reservoirs
8. Pipes that travel really far from lakes/rivers
9. Trucks/planes that transport water
10. Saltwater treatment plants
We are pushing to see more about this water in the ground, knowing that transporting water miles and miles either above or below the ground has to be time-consuming and expensive. We also didn't see a lot of snow year round on our government maps of the US, so this doesn't seem likely (maybe in Greenland or Antarctica where there is snow year-round). We know that water tanks and towers hold water, but how does it get in there? This led us to thinking about water in the ground. Many students brought up digging in the sand at the beach, and eventually finding water. Maybe this is the case for everywhere? That everywhere has water in the ground?
So for investigation ideas, students came up the following:
1. Find an expert who lives somewhere where there is no freshwater nearby and ask them where their water comes from. Mrs. Brinza has some acquaintances she met at a teacher workshop this summer in KS and OK she will reach out to and see if they know.
2. Digging holes in the ground would be hard. So maybe someone else has done this? We'll turn to some videos to help us with this as there are all kinds of interesting people who film all kinds of things. There has to be a video somewhere of someone digging for water not near the beach.
3. And lastly, if there are maps for above the ground, there has to be some maps for below the ground! Underground maps might help us identify if there are places with water underground!
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