Water, Water Everywhere: Designing Water Filters
Science Topic: Water and the Water Cycle
Engineering Field: Environmental Engineering
Country: India
Storybook: Saving Salila's Turtle
This unit addresses the increasingly important issue of water quality through lessons that teach students about water contamination and the ways that people ensure the quality of their drinking water.
Students will first think like environmental engineers as they review a mural of a small American community, noting possible sources of pollution and suggesting ways to clean up or eliminate the source of the pollution. Students will then focus on the environmental engineering problem of providing safe drinking water as they plan, construct, test, and improve their own water filters.
FOSS Connection: Water
STC Connection: Land and Water
GEMS Connections: Acid Rain, Involving Dissolving, Liquid Explorations, River Cutters
Insights Connections: Liquids, There is No Away
