Water’s journey through a local water district is tracked with a map and 3D model to identify the major infrastructural components of a local water district and environmental challenges each component faces.
Students will act as Water Treatment Specialists, designing filtration procedures for murky water and testing its quality using pH and turbidity. Through real-world connections to local facilities and industry careers, they will explore the science and importance of clean water.
Students will explore the connections between water access, race, and environmental justice by conducting academic research, analyzing sources, and writing a practice research paragraph that prepares them for a larger Social Justice Research Paper.
Purifying water with household materials to explore the process and effort of removing pollutants.
Students examine the proposed Danville Creek dam as a case study in water management, climate adaptation, and community impact. They research multiple perspectives, explore alternative solutions, and consider environmental, economic, and social factors in evaluating the project.
Students will learn about the importance of water, our water needs and usage, water treatments and conservation.
Students will apply operations with rational numbers to a real-world hiring scenario, analyzing salaries and budgets to assemble a main break repair team while considering education, experience, and cost-effectiveness.
Students explore how water is treated, stored, and conserved, using real-world scenarios to calculate volumes of aquifers and treatment storage.
Students will look at the development of jobs in the water and agricultural sector. They will learn more about ancient jobs as well as more about modern jobs.