Materials Clear jars Soil Sand Cheese cloth or cotton cloth Rubber band
What to do
- Pour water into a clear jar. Add some soil. Stir.
- Spread the cheese cloth or cotton cloth over the opening of another jar and hold it in place with a rubber band. Pour sand onto the cloth.
- Slowly pour the water with soil through th sand on the cloth and into the clean jar.
- The water poured through the sand should be cleaner than the water in the original jar.
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