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Materials:
• Coffee filters
• Pourable container
• Clayrocks, plastic, dirt
By the end of of this topic students should be able to:
• Make observations about how water travels through pebbles, sand, soil, clay and plastic (asphalt).
• Draw a model to show what happens underground that we don't see.
• Describe with words to how water moves through pebbles, sand, soil, clay and plastic (asphalt)
• Make predictions about how water will flow through each of the Earth materials that will be tested.
Predicting Porosity & Permeability of Earth Materials
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