Learning about Aquifers - by Eating One!

Today a team from the Village of Paw Paw came to teach us about aquifers.

They showed us a model of underground water, layers of dirt, clay and models of wells that go down into the ground to bring up water for our use.  

It was so interesting to see the model and to watch a "contaminant" like oil or chemicals as it flowed into the rivers and streams!  

We got to make "edible aquifers" when they finished, to practice what we had learned.  We used ice cream as a layer of clay, then poured Sprite over the top as the water.  We put crushed Oreos on top to be dirt, sprinkles to be topsoil, little marshmallows to be big rocks and boulders and then we used a nice big straw to be our well going down to find the water!  We even used a drop of red food coloring to demonstrate a contaminant in our system!  

We had no idea that learning about aquifers could be so...YUMMY!