Discovering Water Pollution with the Year 3s

Last week during senior swimming sports the year 3s stayed behind with Mr. McC and started thinking about water pollution. We wanted to find out what happens to that fresh water once it gets polluted and if it is possible to get it back to clean, drinkable water. So, we found rubbish and other things from around the school and polluted our water. We then tried our best to clean it!

We discovered that even though you can remove a lot of the obvious pollution, such as rubbish and debris, it is much more difficult to actually clean the water and remove other things like oil and dirt.

From our previous learning we knew that only about 3% of the world's water is freshwater that we can drink so it's extremely important to do what we can to keep it clean!

There was no way we were going to drink our water after we polluted it but don't worry we used it on the gardens so it wouldn't be wasted!