Learning About Aquifers

The township water department came and taught us about aquifers and how to help protect our groundwater from contamination. 

  It was very interesting to learn about containment layers, wells, and water towers!

 

To help us remember how it all goes together, we made edible aquifers!  

We used Sprite in the bottom of the cup to represent the ground water way below the surface.  Then a scoop of ice cream represented the containment layer. 

On top, we use crushed Oreos as top soil, marshmallows as rocks and sprinkles as dirt to show all the things that can be above ground on top of our water. 

 

Finally, we pushed a "well" - a straw down through all the layers to get to our groundwater.  

Yum!