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Module Three from Havergal College Ontario, Canada
Dear Water Project Pals,
In our project, Module Three is all about the
uses of water in a recreational way. We are lucky in Canada because we
have four seasons.
One day, our class had a brainstorming session
about how we use water for fun in our warmer seasons, especially summer
(June, July and August).
These are some of the activities that the girls
of 2T like to do: splashing in puddles, fishing, surfing, tubing, swimming,
sailing, scuba diving,
snorkeling, boating, running under a sprinkler,
sliding down a water slide and listening to or watching outdoor water fountains.
(Sometimes, on very
hot days, it's also fun to play in the bigger
water fountains.) In 2S, we talked about activities in the winter. These
are some activities that we
like to do: skating, making snowmen, skiing and
dogsledding.
Please go to our website to see our all of our
hard work.
http://www.hccommunity.havergal.on.ca/btaylor/modthree.htm
We are looking forward to seeing what you have
done,
2S and 2T Havergal College Junior School
Module Three from Payson Seymour Elementary, Illinois, USA
Hello once again from Mr. Smith's 5th graders
in Payson, Illinois. Our studies in using and saving water have left
us slightly goofy, maybe from working
too hard. Anyway, we somehow evolved from our
science mode into our creative writing mode and the following stories about
saving water emerged from
the storm of our learning. Please enjoy our Water
Module 3 called "Amazing Stories About Saving Water on This Planet."
Terry Smith -- 5th Grade Teacher
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SABINE AND THE DISHES
Once apon a time there was a girl named
Sabine Dale Tracy. She was washing the dishes with the water faucet running.
That night when she went to take her
bath there was no water because she used all
of the water washing the dishes. Now she knows to not let the water run
while doing dishes and to fill the sink
with water instead.
So the moral of the story is not to let the water
run while doing the dishes.
from, Jordan, Adam, Krykette, and Paul
Waters, who is known as The Water Boy
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Jim Bob and his Water Problems
Once upon a time, there was a little mouse named
Jim Bob. He was a little brown mouse who lived in a tiny hole in a big
house. When he bathed, he used
way too much water. Two weeks later, he ran out
of water. He panicked, ran outside, and ran into Bingo, a full-blood
Begal. He asked Bingo to to help him.
Bingo barked and ran to get a tiny bucket. Bingo
filled it with water, brought it to Jim Bob, and sat him in it. It was
just the right size for him. From that day on,
he never lost one ounce of water.
The moral of the story is to never leave
the water running, and also, never use too much water!!!!
BY: Kala J, Ashley W, and Brandon W
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The Overflowing Toliet and Sink Problem
One day a person from Texas named little Cuz
was in the bath room brushing his teeth on the pot. The water was overflowing.
His brother Joe came in the
bathroom and said what are you doing little Cuz
the bathroom is over flowed and we don't have any water. This is a lesson
not to leave the water on when you are
doing something else like brushing your teeth
becaue the water is being wasted!
From Tegan,Shauna,and a little bit of help
from Nathan
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Brother Joe in the Bad Encounter with the
Toliet
Brother Joe liked to flush his old toilet
because he loved the sound of running water. One day he flushed his toilet
so much that it exploded. It flooded so
much water that Brother Joe's house floated
away with him in it.
THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS THAT YOUR SHOULD
PUT WATER-FILLED PLASTIC MILK CONTAINER IN THE WATER TANK OF Y
OUR OLD TOILET TO SAVE WATER. WRITTEN
BY JENNIFER, BRIDGET, CHRIS
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Kenny and the Toilet Accident "Kenny did you
fill the toilet with water." "No." "Kenny you know we have an old
toilet and if you don't it will stop flushing."
Two hours later. "Kenny." "What." The toilet
isn't flushing and it really smells." "Oops." If you have an old
toilet you should always fill it up with water because
it uses more water when you flush.
BY jORDAN c
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Billy Bob's Water Bill by: Tori, Ashley,
and Eric
You should always collect running water in a
bucket while exacting your shower temperature and use it to water your
plants. Billy Bob always turns the
water on in the shower and always waits for the
water to get hot and lets it go down the drain. Boy is Billy Bob's
water bill outrageous!!!! He should start putting
the water in a bucket until it gets hot
and use the cold water to water the plants. So in conclusion you should
always put the cold water in a bucket until the water
gets hot and use the cold water to water the
plants in your house and outside.
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Module Three from School
217, St. Petersburg, Russia
Module Three from Pinehurst Primary, Cape Town, South Africa
Dear Water Pals,
Since we are very late in sending off these last two modules, we have combined them.
We have read about many of your experiences where
certain of your classes managed to visit a water treatment plant
and other interesting places.
During National Water Week in South Africa, our
children went on an outing to the Imax Theatre to watch a water presentation.
We learnt many interesting things about how important
water is for us and life on earth. We were fortunate enough, when
we
left the Imax, to watch a live presentation about
water, as part of National Water Week. We learnt some new ideas about how
to
conserve water and these were presented in the
form of drama and mime.
Some of what we learnt was the following:
*Never leave taps running while brushing your
teeth
*Rather shower than bath and sing shorter songs
in the shower!
*Wash your car using a bucket and not a hose
*Fit water-saving devices in your toilets
*Wash vegetables in a basin of water, not under
running water.
We have unfortunately not managed to visit a water
treatment plant and most of our activities were
based on smaller outings so most of what we have
done happened in the classroom.
We learnt how to filter water by using an empty
plastic Coke bottle.
This is what we did:
1. We cut the top off a Coke bottle to make
a funnel.
2. We plugged the neck of the bottle with
cottonwool.
3. We were told to place three different
layers in the funnel.
The layers were:
gravel, sand and damp soil.
4. We waited for less than a minute to
watch what would happen.
5. The water from the damp soil filtered
through the cottonwool.
6. The water came out clear.
Cape Town is well-known for its many beaches that
are major tourist attractions. We enjoy social activities such as surfing,
bodyboarding, kayaking, paddle-skiing, scuba-diving,
jet-skiing, etc. Some parts of our country have natural hot warm springs
which are used to create naturally heated warmbaths.
The 5 dams, which are found at the top of Table Mountain supply
Cape Town with its water.
We did another experiment in the classroom to
investigate how much water is being used by the pupils in our class at
school. We measured the amount of water wasted
by one child when drinking from a tap. We used a stop-watch to measure
the length of time it took for them to drink
the water and then worked out, on average, how much water was wasted.
Although
not everyone had the opportunity to be part of
the experiment, it gave us a good idea of how much water is wasted by the
pupils
in one day, at our school.
In Pinelands, outside our school, is a canal,
which carries water from various parts of the community. It was a
good idea to
use this canal to discover how polluted this
water actually is in our area. We used Coke bottles and placed a visibility
disk with
the numbers 1 to 4 on it. We took a sample of
the canal water and waited for it to settle. According to the numbers that
were
visible to us, we could determine how polluted
the canal water is.
Our class came up with some fantastic ideas on
how to improve the condition of the state of pollution in the canal.
*Never throw anything in the canal
*Designing posters to encourage the children
in our school not to pollute the canal
*Organise a canal clean-up
*Send letters to surrounding factories and the
health department, showing our concerns for the state of the canal
*Send letters to the municipality requesting
that they place more garbage bins along the canal
We have thoroughly enjoyed this opportunity to
share our ideas with you. We hope that you have learnt as much as
we have.
Module Three from Ray Miller Elem., Kirksville, Missouri, USA
Module Three from Rosenwald-Dunbar
Elementary, Jessamine County, Kentucky USA
Module Three fromPettisville
Elementary School, Ohio USA
Dear Water Pals,
The weather in northwestern Ohio has been hot
and dry the past couple of weeks. Farmers are busy planting crops
and are
hoping for rain. It is predicted for Thursday,
so hopefully we will get a nice slow and steady rain to help the
corn and bean
seeds that have already been planted. We
visited our local water treatment plant in March. Since the water
we use in Pettisville
is piped from Archbold, a neighboring community,
we travelled to Archbold to the water plant. The water we use at school
is
piped into two reservoirs in Archbold from the
Tiffin River. Visiting the water treatment plant was interesting,
because we didn't
really understand before what an interesting
process it is to clean and prepare water for drinking. Most of us
had never before
been to the treatment plant. Two of the
main chemicals used to clean the water are lime and chlorine. The
plant superintendent
told us that the water treatment plant in Archbold
keeps the chemicals in balance very well, and the people using this
water have
never had to boil their water before using
it. Sometimes in neighboring communities too many nitrates are found in
the water,
and people are asked to boil it for a day or
two, until the water is safe to use again. We were surprised, at
first, that sand is used
as a filter to help settle dirt out of
the water. But, when we thought about it a bit more, some of us have
swimming pools and use
filters with sand to clean the water that
circulates in our pools. Archbold has a lot of industry. LaChoy, a
producer of Chinese
foods, uses a lot of water each day. This factory
is the largest user of water in Archbold or Pettisville. A parent
of one of our students
is an engineer who designs waste water
treatment plants. He visited our classroom last week. He told us
that on the average each
person uses 50-100 gallons of water per
day. That would mean that a family of 4 would use 200 gallons per
day. There are about
600 people living in the community of Pettisville
who get their water from Archbold. That would mean that the people in
our
community use about 6000 gallons of water each
day. Most of the students in our classroom live in the county and
get their water
from wells. We were surprised to learn
that in the city of Detroit, which is about 120 miles north of Pettisville,
about 1,000,000,000
gallons of water is used each day. That's
a lot!!! Our engineer friend also had 2 jars of water. One he had
filled from his faucet,
and one he had filled from a waste water
treatment plant before he came to our classroom. We couldn't tell the
difference between
the two jars. We were surprised because we always
thought that waste water was so gross, but we learned that the waste water
is
cleaned quite thoroughly, before the water is
sent out to Brush Creek, a creek outside of Archbold. This is the
process: After a toilet
is flushed, the waste water goes to the
sewer. Once it gets to the waste water treatment plant, it goes through
these bar screens that
sort out all of the big waste-YUCK!!! From there
it goes into a grit chamber to a primary sedimentation tank to an
aeration tank.
We learned that tiny bugs help to clean the water.
The people that work at the waste water treatment plant have to work
hard to
make sure that just the right amount of
bugs are available to clean the water. This is a pretty neat system,
because its nature way
of cleaning the water. Then, the water
moves into a secondary sedimentation tank where chlorine is added. We thought
it was
interesting that chloring is added at both kinds
of water treatment plants. From there, the waste water moves into
a digester, and
then is pumpedinto Brush Creek. There are lots
of different uses of water around us. Farmers depend on water for
growing crops,
and industries, such as the Sauder Companies,
depend on water to produce steam as well as Lachoy where Chinese
food is processed.
Since we live in northwestern Ohio, we aren't
very far from Indiana and Michigan. Many people have cottages at lakes
in Indiana
and Michigan. Some people have boats that they
take up to lakes. Lake Erie is about a 45 minute drive and some
students fish there
with their families. The Maumee River is a larger
river that runs through Defiance, Napoleon, and into Toledo. Part
of the War of
1812 was fought in Lake Erie, the Mauemee
River was the site of several famous Indian battles. Today people
who visit historic
Grand Rapids, Ohio can ride in a canal boat just
like the one that was used in the 1800's on the Miami-Erie Canal.
Before the railroad, canals were important in Ohio for transporting goods
and people. A canal is a manmade kind of ditch filled with water.
Lake Erie is one of the largest ports in the world. Much grain
and also stell is transported on freight ships and barges to and
from Toledo on Lake Erie.
We hope you find this information to be useful
and helpful.
Your Pettisville, Ohio water e-pals.
Module Three from Fairfield Elementary School Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Water in our area is used for recreation, commerce, transportation and the Navy.
Recreation uses: Byron
We have many small marinas that are used by people
to keep their boats. These boats are used for going out and seeing
the area, fishing,
water skiing, tubing (pulling a tube with someone
riding on it behind the boat) and other fun stuff. We have a number
of boat ramps that you
can use to launch a boat off from a trailer and
then take it out of the water after you use it.
The ocean beach is the main summer attraction
in our city. Many people come here in the summer to vacation on the
beach. Our beach runs
from Cape Henry - which is the entrance to Chesapeake
Bay - to the border of North Carolina. This is about 28 miles
(45 km). The last 11 miles
(17.6 km) is False Cape State Park. The beach
continues on down in North Carolina. The beach is fun to go to. You can
swim or just wade in the
water. If there has been a storm there may be
large waves. If a hurricane comes here or comes close to us you can not
go out on the beach because
the wind is very strong and the waves may get
up to 15 feet high. That does not happen very often. The ocean temperature
here is 52 F (11 C) now.
It gets a little warmer every week. It gets up
to the high 70's and sometimes it will reach 80 F (27 C) in the summer.
We also have a number of streams and waterways
that you can use a canoe or kayak on. We are too far north for alligators
(they have some in
North Carolina) but we do have water snakes,
including water moccasins (they are poisonous).
Commercial Use - by Alycia
The main commercial use of water here is shipping.
We have two main types of cargo piers here. One supports the big container
ships.
Those are the ones that carry things in the big
steel boxes that are the trailer part of a tractor-trailer truck. You can
load these at any factory or business,
then drive it to the pier, load it on a ship
and send it to another port. We have 3 of these pier facilities here. Each
can handle at least three ships at a time.
The other type of cargo pier loads coal onto
big freighters. We have huge coal fields in the western part of Virginia
and in other states adjoining us.
The coal is brought to the piers by train and
loaded onto the ships by huge conveyors. We have 2 major coal loading piers
in our area. We also tug
boats that pull barges up and down the Chesapeake
Bay.
We have a fairly large fishing community here
also. The seafood Chesapeake Bay is most known for is the blue crab. They
are good to ear but it takes
a lot of them to make a meal. There has been
a lot of talk about cutting back the number of crabs caught because they
are getting harder to catch and
they are not as big as they used to be. We also
have good oysters in the Bay. Fishermen harvest much less oysters than
they used to. Oysters are filter
feeders. They draw in water and filter
their food from whatever is in the water. Scientists have estimated
that when the Jamestown colonists came here
400 years ago there were enough oysters in the
bay to filter all of the water in the bay every 2 weeks. Now there
are enough to filter the water once every year.
The Navy - by Brian
The U.S. Navy's largest base is in our area.
Norfolk Naval Base includes Naval Station Norfolk, Naval Amphibious Base
(NAB) Little Creek,
Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana and Naval Training
Center (NTC) Dam Neck.
Naval Station Norfolk is located right where
the James and Elizabeth Rivers join and empty into the Chesapeake Bay.
This is where all of the carriers,
cruisers, destroyers, submarines, large amphibious
ships and supply ships tie up. There are over 60 ships that call this home.
Norfolk is right next to
Virginia Beach.
NAB is in the northern part of Virginia Beach
and has a channel that opens right to the Chesapeake Bay. All of the medium
and small amphibious
ships work out of here. Also all of the navy
salvage ships and various small boats. Half of the Navy's Seal teams are
here also.
NAS is home to all of the Navy fighters on our
east coast. This includes all of the F-14 Tomcats and the F/A-18 Hornets.
NTC Dam Neck is right
on the Atlantic Ocean and takes up about a mile
of the ocean beach. The Navy has several technical schools there.
One of the special things that we use the water
for is fireworks. Downtown Norfolk is right on the Elizabeth River. When
they do fire for things like
New Years or Independence Day, they bring in
a barge with all of the fireworks on it and shoot them from the middle
of the river. Many people can
get a good view of the fireworks and still be
in a safe area.