Comments on: Water Matters

By: Alejandra

Alejandra — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:15:07 +0000

Dear Fantastic Fours,

I am Alejandra from RISE Tsinghua! I am so happy to read your thoughts about our workshop. I hope you can use all these new ideas and one day be future leaders to help make the world a better place. Keep on thinking about these issues and spread your ideas. very proud of you!

By: Mr Jarman

Mr Jarman — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 05:55:17 +0000

Hi Grade 4,
It was great seeing you work hard with the RISE Tsinghua University students to make filters and learn about water conversation. What a smart article Geon Woo. Well Done!! I sure did appreciate Kazuki and Diana’s comments on water conservation. And I love how Joshua is going to take action in his own home to conserve finite resources and reduce emissions. Science sure is a lot of fun when you get to do cool stuff like make water filtration systems. Wow! Science Rules!
Mr. Jarman 🙂

By: Mrs Gailis

Mrs Gailis — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:31:00 +0000

Hello Grade 4!
Thank you for inviting me to experience your water filtration experiments. It is hard to believe that people in the world do not have fresh drinking water. Maybe one of you will work for an NGO someday that helps to bring fresh water to rural areas. Who knows what the future holds!?

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 30 May 2013 02:38:40 +0000

Dear Ms. O’Dwyer,

I think water is the most precious resource because RISE Tsinghua University’s students told us that only 0.3 percent of the water on the Earth is safe for drinking.

We can conserve water by not polluting waterways. For example, people keep throwing rubbish in lakes or rivers. We should stop polluting EVERYTHING!

We can conserve other finite resources also by not polluting them, and also reusing, reducing and recycling them.

Please save the finite resources!
Sincerely,
Diana

By: Kazuki

Kazuki — Thu, 30 May 2013 02:34:06 +0000

Dear Ms. O’Dwyer

Cleaning water is awesome! I had never tried to clean water and I never tried to make a filter. It is very fun but we also learn many things about water such us water is precious because we can’t live without water. We also need to conserve water because water changes to be dirty (with pollution) so we should conserve water. We can conserve water by not putting trash beside the water, and not putting soap in the water. We also can conserve another things such us trees by not using as many papers. I think we should conserve finite resources!

Kind Regards
Kazuki

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 30 May 2013 02:00:10 +0000

Hi Ms.O’Dwyer
This is a very good with this kind of water filter, but people in some places do not know how to use this method.
From
Jack

By: Hanson

Hanson — Thu, 30 May 2013 01:39:22 +0000

Dear Ms.O’Dwyer
I loved the feeling of the materials. My favorite part was making the filter because I could make a filter that really cleaned the water, and I was so exited. When it is our turn I thought that the water will be so clean that you can drink it. (But I couldn’t drink it.) The competition was also fun. In the competition we lost but I had lot of fun. I learned about how to keep the water clean such as, do not poop or pee beside the river, do not throw rubish beside the river and do not pour waste water beside the river.
Kind Regards,
Hanson

By: hyunseo

hyunseo — Thu, 30 May 2013 01:28:10 +0000

Dear Ms. O’d wyer,

We really enjoyed this activity. I learned many things that I didn’t know before. For example, I learned that toilet needs to be uphill from the well because the dirty germs might go inside the well’s water and make people sick.

I also enjoyed making a water cleaner. My team won 2nd place at the cleaning water competition! Thank you Tsinghua University students for teaching us about water!

From Hyun Seo

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 30 May 2013 01:20:48 +0000

Dear, Ms. O’Dwyer,

Thank you for getting us a chance to learn how to make the water cleaner with a very simple filter. Water is very precious as a resource because the water we can drink is a very small part of the worlds’s water so we have to save the water. We can conserve water by reusing and reducing the finite resources and water. And the RISE TSINGHUA University told us how to make a filter. We made the filter with the old bottles cut of the end and put dirty water, small rocks, big rocks and sand in it. We first put water inside the water bottle, then we put the small rocks than we put the big rocks in than we put in A LOT of sand. We had a competition after the making. We had fun with the RISE Tsinghua University!

Kind Regards
Annie

By: kota

kota — Thu, 30 May 2013 01:02:45 +0000

Dear Ms. Odwyer
It was very fun cleaning water. I think we can conserve water by not taking long showers, not leaving the taps on too long and only using it when you really need it. I think that will save a little bit of the world. I learned that if you put your toilet near underground water, the water will get dirty. But if you build the toilet below the underground water it will be impossible for the water to rise up. This is important in countryside communities.

from
Kota