Watercare

On Wednesday Room 16 were lucky because the  Watercare lady Sally came in to talk to us about the water cycle.

First Sally said to us, “Who knows how the water cycle works?”  Room 16 knew a lot about the water cycle because we learnt about it last year. We learnt about it last term as well.

After that she said we are going on an adventure. We were pretending to be water drops. This is how it went. We were in a lake. Soon the sun came out and we evaporated. After that we were falling as rain. Then we did it all over again.

After Room 16 did the adventure, Sally talked about how she cleaned up the water because she works for Watercare. It was like the water cycle but when it rains some of the water goes into the dams.

The thing that they use has heaps of strings that catches the dirt that goes through little pipes from the dams. Then the water goes into big tanks. At the beginning the pipes are massive then they get smaller and smaller until the pipes are only about 5 centimeters wide. When the pipes are only 5 centimeters wide the water flows really fast and that is how they clean the water up. If they didn't clean the water we wouldn't be able to drink the water without getting sick.

After that we did an experiment to see who can make the cleanest water. I buddied up with Tyrone. We used dirty water, toilet paper, cotton balls, bark and sand. The team that made the cleanest water won a chocolate fish. Tyrone and I used toilet paper. Tyrone and I was beginning to have clean water. When the water came out Tyrone and I was excited because we had clean water. It was a little bit dirty but when Sally judged it we came third. We only got one chocolate fish instead of two. Liam, Kenneth and Ashton came first.

I enjoyed learning about the water cycle. I wish I can do it again.