Modeling Waste Water Treatment
Students will work in teams to "treat" a model of "sewage" with different processes and materials.
Collection
Water
Human Impact & Water Conservation
Having students end our Human Impact unit by creating a model of their own usage of water at home or even throughout the day/week. Students will design a solution to better conserve water themselves or their community by analyzing the date from the model they created.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Students will understand how humans depend on Earth’s natural resources, how these resources are unevenly distributed, and how people further affect their distributions.
Restoration Evaluation
Students will be able to observe and measure the built wetlands habitat and describe the ecosystem interactions as well as evidence of resilience.
Water in, Water out, and everything in between
The teacher will open with exploratory questions about how the water we use is brought into the home, and added onto that will be an extension of, “where does it go when it exits the home?” After our introduction students will research different types of water filtration and make a poster.
Water Quality Monitoring of Local Stream
Students will collect water samples from a local stream and measure various aspects of water quality.
Greening Our Water Infrastructure
During a unit on scale drawings, proportional relationships and similar figures, we will explore the water infrastructure of SF. Students will use what they learn about green infrastructure to solve a real problem at their school.
Lobos Creek Watershed Ecology and Water Treatment
Students explore how water moves from natural sources to the faucet, learning water quality testing and filtration skills through hands-on exercises. They compare filter designs, examine their effectiveness, and discover careers in the water treatment industry.
What's My Water Footprint?
Students will learn about the importance of water, our water needs and usage, water treatments and conservation.