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Mary LeBoulanger Conrad High School Dallas ISD Mentor: Dr. Bryan Boulanger Civil Engineering Dept. Texas A&M University. Yhousuf Jamal. Dr. Bryan Boulanger. Pranav Nagarnaik. Water???? ….Not enough, not clean enough, Let’s fix it!!!!!. Ishan Desai. Was that a snake???? Catch it!!!!!.
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Mary LeBoulangerConrad High SchoolDallas ISDMentor:Dr. Bryan BoulangerCivil Engineering Dept.Texas A&M University
Yhousuf Jamal Dr. Bryan Boulanger PranavNagarnaik Water???? ….Not enough, not clean enough, Let’s fix it!!!!! Ishan Desai
Was that a snake???? Catch it!!!!!
NASA water reclamation project! Infinity and Beyond.......
“…Because it’s the right thing to do…” Dr. Stephen Carpenter Prof. of Art Ed. And Visual Culture Texas A&M University
Goals • Instilling a profound feeling of hope and determination in my students that through education they can make a difference in this world • create and test a filter • collect and manipulate real world, meaningful data. • Use technology that may not be familiar • Link science and math in real world investigations. • Encourage investigation and design principles
Day 1: • Pretest • Videos • Journaling • Build a water filter http://stemsummit.tamu.edu/resources/nasa/Water_Filtration_Engr_Design_Challenge-SEEC.ppt
Day 2: Gather water 2. Examine the water 4. Measure and graph flow rate. 3. Filter water through the ceramic filters
Day 3: 1. Determine the water needed for a family for a day. 2.Determine time required to filter water for a family. 3. Enter data on a table and a graph, calculate filters needed for a village. 4. Display their posters and do a gallery walk
Day 4: • Finish filters. Filter a stock solution measure and graph data. • Use a colorimeter, a pH meter, and salinity probe. • If this data shows a correlation determine a linear regression to fit the data.
Day 5: 1. PUR demonstration 2. Determine cost of water using PUR 3. Compare the cost of using the clay filter and the PUR 4. Choose “Best” Method 5. Participate in a Socratic Seminar
Vocabulary • Some vocabulary that will be incorporated into the lessons: • Domain • Range • Continuous data • Discrete data • Slope • Rate • Direct variation • Dependent • Independent • Constant • Solution • Formula • Equation • Correlation • Scatter plot
Materials: • Various materials for constructing filters • Water testing apparatus including a colorimeter, pH meter, salinity meter, microscope, etc. • PUR packets • Various containers for the water • Poster paper, markers, graph paper etc. for producing five representation posters of data. • Graphing calculators, computers and other technology for researching and calculating information.
After the unit has been completed students will be given a post test to determine the impact of the lessons. • This post test will include questions from WEBCCAT that cover the topics of: • Scatter plots • Correlation • Graphing • Tables • Equations • Solutions to systems of equations by graphing
TAKS Objectives covered: • A wide range of topics dealing with graphing • Multiple representations of data • Formulating equations from data • Solutions to pairs of linear equations • Some science objectives will be discussed • Some social studies topics will be discussed
Acknowledgements: • A special thanks to our mentor, Dr. Bryan Boulanger for the time he has spent with us, the knowledge he has shared and for the work he is doing. • Thank you to all the E3 folks that have made this a fantastic learning experience. • Thank you to all the E3 participants. I feel I truly have made wonderful friends and found fantastic resources for knowledge and inspiration. • Thank you to my partner Kamilah that has made this so much more fun and has reminded me why God gave children to young people! Good Luck. • Thank you to the NSF for realizing how important it is for teachers to have the opportunity to “learn” and for making this possible