We polluted the water with litter, animal droppings, a leaf, fertilizer, paint, and oil.- Alaya and Zoey
Some pollution came from humans and some came from nature. -Kerrisa
After we polluted the water, the water looked brown and you saw the oil on top of the water.- Madison
If we left the water polluted it would affect the water and plants. The oil spill in the water could affect the fish trying to swim to the surface.- Eva
If we kept the animal droppings in the water, the animals who drank the water might die. -Kaiel
When people try to catch fish, when they eat the fish they would get sick because the fish were in polluted water.- Jessica
Our challenge was to clean the polluted water.- Tenae
One of the constraints was we could only use tools that added up to $100. -Kristin
We could only $100 because that was our budget.- Madison
We couldn't spend all the money we want because in the real world, the pollution engineers do not have all the money in the world to spend on tools when they are cleaning.- Zoey and Alaya
It was going to get the water clean because when you poured water through thee funnel, the water would go into the cup and the dirt would stay in the coffee filter.-Zyairra
Another solution that we used was to put the cotton ball in the water and it will absorb the dirty water and we can use the tweezers to pick up solid objects.- Kristain
Another solution was that we used the detergent to clean the water and we used the paper towel to stir it. It wasn't a good solution because all the detergent did was separate the polluted water into layers. It didn't really clean the water. It also added more chemicals into the dirty water.- Muhammed, Madison, and Kerrisa
Some tools didn't work very well. The pipe cleaner didn't work very well because it didn't pick things up.- Serenity
A tool that we should have gotten was a tweezer because we could pick up the leaf and the trash with the tweezer.- Eva
If we polluted the water we can't drink the polluted water. One thing I learned is to clean up the polluted water.- Geah
One thing I learned is that we should clean up our own messes and not just put it in the water.- Michael
Cleaning polluted water is hard so we shouldn't pollute in the first place.- Zoey
Wesleyan wants to know, what would you do if you saw polluted water? Let us know in the comments section!