Summary
Watersheds can be hard to see -- unless you build one on your kitchen counter with trays, food coloring and lots of water. A hands-on model of how water flows across the land.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Kids build a tabletop model to see how water moves across the land.
- What is a watershed?
- Which way does water always flow?
- How did the food coloring show where the water went?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: watershed, flow, model.
Try it: Draw a hill and use arrows to show which way rain would flow down it.