Crumpled Paper Watersheds

Which way does water flow?

RR – Go get/fill out a purple sheet and put it on the end of the table.

MM – Go get map pencils. SI/T – Go get a white tub.

** - The teacher will give you a blue marker.

Getting Ready

Create a unique landscape by crumpling up the piece of paper.

Then opened your paper part-way to reveal mountains, valleys, crevices, etc.

Step 1 –

Place the paper in the pan, making sure all of the paper is contained in the pan.

Step 2 -

Use a brown map pencil to mark the ridges and high points of the landscape.

Use the blue marker to mark the low spots, where you think the water will collect.

Step 3 -

Decide where you think the best place to build roads would be. Then draw in the roads using a black map pencil.

Decide where you think the best site to build a house would be. Then draw a spot for the house with a purple map pencil.

Step 4 -

Show the teacher your predictions of where you think the water will collect!

Step 5 -

Now you're ready for it to rain....The teacher will spray your watershed with “rain.”

Step 6

RR – Please turn in your purple sheet to the finished box!

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