Homemade water filter science project
Objective
Let us today make our Homemade water filter science project or water filter paper using scientific techniques. This will be one of the funny science experiments in which dirty water turns clean. With soap, no way! You’ll need a filter, which is a device that eliminates pollutants like dirt from water. The Homemade water filter science project you’ll make here with an adult’s guidance who can help you up in your experiments.
Material required for Homemade water filter
● 2 liters empty and clean plastic bottle
● Knife
● unclean Water (make your own with things like coffee grounds, dirt, shredded old leaves, cooking oil, or small pieces of foam)
● Cup for measuring
● Spoon
● a stopwatch or a watch.
● a pencil and some paper
● You may acquire as much activated charcoal, gravel, sand (coarse and/or fine), and cotton balls as you like.
● A bandana, old sock, handkerchief, or even a paper towel can be used as a coffee filter.
Homemade water filter Procedure
Step 1 Request that an adult cut the bottle in half. Then, to make the top seem like a funnel, flip the top half of the bottle over and set it down. At the top, you’ll create your filter.
Step 2 at the bottom place the coffee filter (or bandana, socks, etc.).
Step 3 Cotton balls, charcoal, gravel, sand, and/or other materials should be included in the layers. You can choose to use just one or all of them. Consider which sequence you want to add things within. Larger filter materials, on the other hand, are more likely to collect larger pollutants.
Step 4 Make a list of the filter materials you used and the sequence in which you stacked them.
Step 5 Measure one cup of unclean water after shaking it.
Step 6 Set your timer
Step 7 Fill your filter with a cup of filthy water. As soon as you begin pouring, start the timer.
Step 8 How long does it take for all the water to pass through the filter? Then write down how long it took.
Step 9 Remove the filter material one layer at a time with care. What did each layer take out of the water?
Step 10 Experiments! Try again after cleaning the bottle. Each time and at the time of each experiment, arrange the filter material in a different arrangement. Hopefully, you enjoyed the whole experiment and enjoyed your filter paper.
Observation
In the Homemade water filter science project experiment, you will observe that the water which you has earlier was polluted and had many particles of dust, sand, etc particles but when you have passed that water from your homemade filter the water you got was clean, and the dust and sand particles were collected by the filter.
Conclusion
The slower the better! Water becomes clearer when it passes through a filter for a longer time. Water passes through the filter material quickly, but big pollutants like dirt are trapped. Filter materials are often finer and thinner, allowing them to collect anything that had previously gone unnoticed. Activated charcoal, which employs an electrical charge to collect extremely minute particles for humans to see, may be found at the end of the water route.
Your filtered water is not safe to consume. However, a plant will adore it. So do not drink it you may pour it into your plants.
Result
Hopefully, you have made the Homemade water filter. The water cleaned by this filter will not be good for drinking as it does not kill germs but it removes dust and sand particles. You may use this cleaned water to pore your plants.