WATER FOR TOMORROW

Holly was delighted to meet so many of you at the Guider's Conference in October. She was a bit disappointed that more of her chicks were unable to visit, but they are all so busy. A few are even missing - seems like they might need a little vacation. ( Please track down your missing Holly).

We learned from our Program Survey conducted at the Guider's Conference, that Guiders from across our Province wanted more Water for Tomorrow activity ideas. Here are some of the experiments that I had on display in the " Program entertainment line" at the conference.

Dinosaurs: There is the same amount of water in the world today as when the dinosaurs roamed. You can ask the girls about the water cycle.

100 Pennies and a Globe: 97 pennies represent salt water, 2 pennies represent the north and south poles and glaciers. 1 penny represents all the fresh water in the world, but, not all that water is available to humans.

How Plants Drink: Coloured carnations or celery - use food colouring mixed with water, the stronger the food colouring the darker the colour. Use white carnations. If you start this experiment at the beginning of your meeting, you will see the colours move up the stems before the meeting is over. This is a great idea for banquets or to make a corsage for Mother's Day. This experiment shows the girls how plants drink water.

Egg Float: Make an egg float. Is it easier to float in salt water or fresh water? You need to add salt to the water. Use both a hard boiled egg and a raw egg (in the shell) and see which floats in fresh water and which floats in salt water.

Oil Tanker Experiment: This one was the favourite. You will need several glasses of water, food colouring (look for the white package, the bottles are smaller than the bottles in the orange package - I used the orange package bottles of food colouring at the conference) and regular oil, not good for you to use light oil. Add a drop of oil on the top of the water. Add a drop of food colouring on top of the oil. This may take some practice so that your oil tanker does not break immediately. Once your tanker breaks, girls will see how our oceans become polluted.

Pond Turnover: You will need 4 mason jars, 2 filled with hot water and 2 filled with cold water, plus some squares from a milk carton to cover the top of the bottles, red and blue food colouring, and a dish pan. Add the red food colouring to the hot water and the blue food colouring to the cold water. Carefully place a square, cut from the milk carton, over the red hot water. Place this jar atop the blue cold water. Carefully pull out the milk carton square. What happens? The red hot water will stay on top of the cold blue water. Now try the reverse, put the cold blue water on the top of the hot water. This time the cold water will sink and you will make purple water.

Look for several more ideas in the next issue. Don't forget … you can call, write or e-mail me or Holly with any questions or ideas on your Water for Tomorrow activities.


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