You may discard the banana or eat it.
Water purification system diagram for kids.
Alum and other chemicals are added to the water at this stage.
See 200 stem projects for kids we have read a few great books on this topic.
Make a water filter using a fruit peel.
Adult supervision required when handling chemicals and or cutting objects remember to use proper safety equipment when experimenting.
The goal is to produce water fit for specific purposes.
Hold the filter over a cup.
Fruit peels have the ability to absorb bacteria.
The story of water on earth by rochelle strauss.
Suspended particles get stuck to the chemicals to form floc.
The diagram below shows a basic water treatment process for surface water.
Once the peel is blended put it into a coffee filter.
Because we won t disinfect our water for this water project and will just be making an example water filtration system it is not safe to drink as this purification process and treatment process we will experiment with will not provide safe and pure water.
Peel a banana and grind the peel in a blender.
Water purification process by which undesired chemical compounds organic and inorganic materials and biological contaminants are removed from water that process also includes distillation the conversion of a liquid into vapour to condense it back to liquid form and deionization ion removal through the extraction of dissolved salts.
You won t need it for the filter.
One major purpose of water purification is to provide.
Surface water is more often treated rigorously than underground water as it has less contaminants.
This week we worked on a water filtration experiment to teach the kids about water pollution and clean water.
Pour water through the coffee filter.