NASA
Nasa Environmental Control and Life Support Systems Water Filtration Challenge
This educator guide provides students with a challenge to design, build, and test a water filtration system, simulating what is used in a spacecraft. Includes background information, lesson plans, and extension activities.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Introduction
An introduction to an investigation of real-world problems to develop viable solutions to global access to clean water.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere?
Students learn about global access to clean water and apply the engineering design process to develop a solution to purify water.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Protecting Water From Pollution
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains why keeping water from being polluted is preferable to cleaning it after being polluted, and what has happened since the passage of the Clean Water Act in...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Global Water Issues
Explore reports and news articles to build understanding of global water issues.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Water Quality: Possible Solutions
Students act as engineers to design a basic solution to the water quality problems studied.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Make a Prototype and Test Your Design
Students create a water purification system, and test it out to see how well it works to purify a water sample.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Consider Constraints/ Explore Possibilities
Students design a water purification system given certain constraints.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Final Presentation
Students plan to present their water purification system at the end of a project-based learning exercise.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Protecting Water From Pollution
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How to reduce pollution and clean up polluted water.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Water Filtration
Students will learn about the importance of water and the role it plays in our lives. Students will be exposed to what must occur each day so that they can have clean water.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Sample Water Purification Systems
Learn about the two methods to clean water: distillation and filtration.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Water Purification Project
A project through which students research the need for clean water, the technologies related to water purification, and design a component for a water purification system to be installed in a developing country.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Learn How to Disinfect Contaminated Water
Clean water is not a given everywhere in the world. In this science fair project, students will investigate whether sunlight could be used to disinfect contaminated water. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: The Engineering Design Process
Students brainstorm new ideas during part of the engineering process of designing a water purification system.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Approach and Design Proposal
Part of a larger project where students design a water purification system, this is the step where they select an approach and develop a design proposal.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Refine Your Design/create Your Final System
Part of a larger project where students design a water purification system, this is the step where they refine their design and create their final system.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Communicate Your Results
Resources for communicating results of a PBL unit where students designed a water purification system.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Phase 3 Build Your Presentation
Some ideas to help students think of preparing a creative presentation for thier water purification PBL.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Water Purification
The lessons on this site are designed to explore the Water Purification Project. For each instructional activity, there is a link to the instructional activity itself and another link to the lesson plan for that particular instructional...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Water Filtration
Student groups design a water filtration system and present to the class why they picked their design.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Nu, You, and Water Animation
This animation discusses water and its properties in a storybook format. An emphasis is placed on filtration and purification of water.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Things That Matter to Flocculants
Prior to reaching households, water is exposed to a variety of treatments designed to render it fit for human consumption and use. One of the first treatment steps is the removal of suspended solids using chemical additives called...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Does Media Matter? Infiltration Rates and Storage Capacities
Students gain a basic understanding of the properties of media- soil, sand, compost, gravel- and how these materials affect the movement of water (infiltration/percolation) into and below the surface of the ground.