Dirty water experiment

Aim: To make a filtration plant using household materials.

What is a filtration?

Filtration is separating solids from liquids by adding a medium through which only the liquid can pass.

Examples are:

1.  Teabag
2. swimming pool
3.  kidney
4.  coffee plunger/coffee filter

Materials

1.Dirty water

2.Sand

3.Filter paper

4.Pebbles

5.Water bottle

6.Scissors

7.Funnel

8.Coffee filter

Process - ( use verbs or doing words in each step )

Step 1

Cut the bottle in half.

Step 2

Put the top half upside down inside the bottle.

STEP 3

Add layers of filter then add your sand/pebbles.

STEP 4

Get 1 cup of dirty water.

STEP 5

Pour dirty water into the filter inside of the upside down bottle.

Measurements 

When my group did this experiment we successfully did every step but when we were watching it enter the bottom bottle it did clean out a little bit but it wasn't clean enough to be able to drink.