Where is water found?

To check the children's prior knowledge the children told me where they knew water was found and I drew it on a poster. Then we used the book Water by Frank Asch to add information to the poster.

While we gathered information the children came up with questions to lead our inquiry:

• Is snow and ice water?
• What is dew?
• Where does the water in our taps come from?
• Do you need water to make paper?

During this process Alfie was chewing on his sleeve and when he leaned on our poster he made it wet . . . with saliva! An exciting discovery! Water can be found in our bodies! The children thought of two sources: tears and saliva. We'll investigate this further.

I shared with the children something I knew about water - the water we find in oceans is different than water we find everywhere else. The children taste tested fresh water and salt water.

Salt water

Fresh water
Experiment: Is ice water? Some thought yes and some thought no. We let an ice cube melt in a bowl and concluded ice is water and we talked about two forms of water: liquid and solid. The children discovered that their hands and mouth made the ice melt faster.