During the elementary years, children begin to develop a greater interest in fairness and justice. In our hybrid school, the children are introduced to global issues and discover ways they can help the world on a larger scale. We recently discussed how watersheds are created by building pretend mountains and hills out of containers and placing a plastic bag over them. The children took turns making it "rain" and watching where the water collected. We then used food coloring and pepper to represent pollution to place at the top of our mountains and hills. Once again we provided rain to our model to watch how pollution is spread through our watersheds. The children became quite concerned after this lesson, and we discussed ways to prevent pollution! mindsprout.me/hybrid #watersheds #pollution #woodlandstx #springtx