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Lesson Activities
- Introduction
- Access to Clean Water: What Is the Problem?
- Global Water Issues
- Your Challenge
- The Engineering Design Process
- Phase 1 - Regional Information on Water Issues
- Water Quality: Possible Solutions
- Sample Water Purification Systems
- Water Quality Resources
- Phase 2 - Consider Constraints and Explore Possibilities
- Select an Approach and Develop a Design Proposal
- Make a Prototype and Test Your Design
- Refine Your Design and Create Your Final System
- Communicate Your Results
- Phase 3 - Build Your Presentation
- Final Presentation
- Student Resources
- Teacher Resources
- STEM Careers
Water Quality: Possible Solutions
You have conducted research about the water quality in your chosen region, so now you need to think about possible solutions. You and your teammates will switch gears and act as engineers to design a basic solution to the water quality problems you have uncovered.
Water Quality
Click through the slideshow to learn how to improve water quality.
> Text version of Water Quality
On the next two pages are ideas on how to build simple purification systems and resources on how professionals build complex systems.
Teacher Note
Have students continue to research and take notes. If necessary, students may use the extra note-taking pages in the back of the Engineering Portfolios. The links on the next two pages will give them more background information for water purification systems.
STEM Career
Connection
Meet environmental engineer Alesandra Agresti.
Environmental engineers look for solutions to environmental problems.