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Classroom Activities Grades K-3 Water Quality Students will
learn how water can be purified. Newspaper, 2-liter soft drink
bottles, scissors, tape, filtering materials: cotton, sand,
gravel, paper towels, wire, screening, coffee filters; muddy
water, plastic cups, rubber bands, crayons or markers and paper.
Water treatment plant, purification, pollution - Discuss how
water becomes unsafe to drink and harmful to fish and other
aquatic animals. Explain the process of how water is cleaned for
drinking water. - Cover table tops with newspaper. - Organize
students into pairs. Each pair gets a 2-liter bottle cut in
half. - Instruct the students to create a funnel by placing the
top of the bottle upside down and rest it in the bottom half of
the bottle. Have the groups try two diff