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Water
- Get Wet! Episode 104
  
1) Build Your Own Mazometer
Draw a circular maze on a piece of paper and laminate it if you plan on getting it wet. For each of the different motions below, draw and test different mazometers and find the one that works best in each category:
• side-to-side motion
• up-and-down motion
• sudden jolts
Test your mazometers on a local waterslide, roller coaster or even
a bus ride.
2) Is Water Slippery?
Use a garden hose to turn a regular slide into a waterslide. Is
the water slide faster or just more fun than a dry slide?
Think of a way to measure if a wet slide is more slippery than a dry slide. If so, how much more slippery? Is running water more slippery than standing water?
3) Ocean In A Sand Box
You can explore waves by making a depression in a sandbox and lining it with a sheet of plastic. Then just pour in water. How will you create a wave?
Investigate how the length and the angle of the "beach" influences the shape of waves. What happens when you add rocks, change the water depth or make other changes?
Tip: You can use corks or food coloring to better observe how the
water moves.
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