Where does our drinking water come from?

Today we continued investigating the child's question "How does water get to our taps?" 

Mixing flour and water for paper mache

We started building a model of where Vancouver gets it drinking water which will provide a way for the children to show what they've learned.

Together we did some research on the computer and learned that there are 3 reservoirs we get our water from, our model will include two of them: Capilano and Seymour.

Making Seymour Mountain and Capilano Mountain

Johnathan and Sofia helped me paper mache two mountains. Simone said that ballerinas do not get their hands gooey so she opted to be the photographer and take pictures of the process. The smell of the paper mache made Alfie gag so he opted to give us moral support out of nose's reach rather than risk disaster!

The book "A Cool Drink of Water" by Barbara Kerley illustrates how everyone all over the world needs clean water to drink. Sofia noticed that not everyone got their drinking water from taps.




This led us to wonder about "What needs fresh water?" The children are very knowledgeable about this and made a information poster to share their knowledge.