Fourth
graders learn valuable lessons about water at Jeff State
Clanton Intermediate fourth grader
Abbi Calhoun learned on Friday the importance of keeping water clean.
“I got to see what water looks like
when you put a bunch of garbage in it,” Calhoun said. “It was gross.”
Calhoun was among 650 fourth grade
students from the county participating in the first annual water festival at
Jefferson State Community College campus and the adjoining Clanton Conference
and Performing Arts Center.
The purpose of the festival was to
educate fourth grade students on the importance of water and ways to keep it
clean.
Glenn Littleton with the Alabama
Clean Water Partnership said the festival is designed to educate kids that
everything they do has an effect on water.
“We just want them to be able to
come and learn good habits now that they can carry on when they get older,”
Littleton said. “Most of the fourth graders cover the water cycle in their
school curriculum so the festival provides a more hands-on approach to what
they are already learning.”
The festival had three stations:
Fantastic Filtration, focusing on teaching students about filtering water;
Edible Aquifers, teaching students how water is contaminated; and Water Cycle
Bracelets, teaching students to make a bracelet resembling the water cycle.
By Emily Etheredge
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