Eng_water

Go to the following site and type in "water treatment" or "waste treatment" A number of curricular ideas come up http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/k12/search/search_k12.jhtml Some fun activities on the EPA site. One involves filtering chocolate out of water. Another uses an aquarium set up with an external filtering apparatus and shows how different filters handle different ground source pollutants. I would allow students to come up with their own pollutants and try different filtering materials on each. Joyce Cheatham http://teachengineering.org/search.php

Water filtration http://cherokeereservation.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fourh/professionals/greenlight/afterschool/WaterFiltration.pdfl This is a basic water filtration unit. Students design a filtration system using available materials and filter a water sample. The group with the cleanest water wins. There is a similar activity in Project Wet. When I used it with my students, I required them to price out their materials and included a cost component. The students not only had to clean the water, but they had to do it as cheaply as possible. This activity coulb ne adapted to work with 6-12 grades. ~Evaluated by Becky Hammack

Kristy Martin - I would use this scenario in my class room tying many things together. I have many subjects science in one class so being able to cross the curriculum with them including the rest of our teacher is great. I would use this with environmental science working on the processes of cleaning water, physicals science working on the ph, and other levels of the water, biology working with the effects on the habitats and organisms. I love the Newton's Apple site, as a newer teacher it is helpful to find new ideas with lesson plans. I found this website by going to engineeringpathway site and typing in water treatment, and marking the lesson plan square. http://www.newtonsapple.tv/TeacherGuide.php?id=1536&downloadURL=true&loId=527BFB2F-C231-416D-972A-A2159D5D3EE3