Ecology Connections Camp Blog
Welcome to the Ecology Connections Camp Blog. In this blog campers will be submitting research and documentation of the work they have done and the STEM concepts they have learned and mastered at this weeks' camp. Each day will have a heading and this will be entirely compiled by campers.
Just One Kid
This camp had only one sign up. That was disappointing, but what a great kid! I will let him tell you what he liked and did.
Finn and His Water Purifier
Finn and his 13th Century Water Purifier
The Design Challenge
Hello. My name is Finn and I am 11. I am at Mezzacello to learn about sustainability, energy, and ecology stuff. Water is important, but dirty. This water is duck water and it’s really gross! They poop in it. But we can clean it with cotton like they did in way back times.
This thing filters water. Clean water is good. This makes water for animals, even the ducks. They poop in the water. gross!
Design Constraints
The things I had to use:
55 gallon barrels
Tubing Cotton shirts
Steel table
Grapevines
Catch Bucket
Water pump
The Plan of Action
The design of the water purifier
What You Learned
In way back times, people hated to drink water it was dirty and germy. Germs are bad and were scared. One monk guy knew that cotton will pull up water and no dirt or icky germs. They pulled water through shirts like when you walk in a stream. Grapevines make the water safe. We built one here and it works! We made duck muck and clean water. Paper Towels work. Cotton works better monk dudes did not have paper towls.
How It Worked
Great! Tests worked good. We built it and used paper towls the towls rot. Cotton works. It’s slow. The grapevine is slower. I drank duck poop! It tasted like grass and water. yay!
