How do I Make a Water filter for my science project?
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I make these in the woods.
You’ll need the following.
1. clean sand
2. cotton or gauze
3. real charcoal, from a fresh fire.
4. a tin can
Wash and boil your sand. Poke a number of holes in the bottom of your can. Starting with cotton or gauze, make layers until the can is 3/4 full. Gauze(enough to hold the sand in place) then sand, then charcoal, gauze, sand, charcoal, gauze on top, so you can lift it out to remove leaves and such.
Charcoal should be fresh and broken into small pieces, but not ground up.
Particles are removed by the gauze and sand, charcoal removes chemicals and such.
If your water isn’t clean enough, pour it through again.
You can make good charcoal by lighting a fire. Get it burning well. Load on some new wood and then cover the fire with green leaves and dirt until it’s almost smothered out. Come back in a few hours and you will have great charcoal.
(don’t use ashes, it must be charcoal. Ashes aren’t good for you.)
My daughter used this for a science project a few weeks ago
You could try changing it up a bit to make it age appropriate if needed
http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/waterfilterpartii.html