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Engineering Design Challenge: Water Filtration
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This Web Seminar took place on March 13, 2012 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern
Time. The presenter was
Kristy Hill,
NASA Explorer Schools Education Specialist at Marshall Space Flight Center. In this
Seminar, Ms. Hill described a hands-on activity that challenges students to design
a water filtration device similar to the system used to recycle water on the International
Space Station.
The PowerPoint, related resources from the NSTA Learning Center, and web links from
the presentation are now contained in the above resource collection. Clicking on
the collection link will place it in your Learning Center, My Library,
neatly organized under the My Resource Collections tab.
This was the second and final presentation of Engineering Design Challenge: Water
Filtration for the 2011-2012 school year. In the seminar, Ms. Hill discussed the
ways water is recycled by nature, municipalities, and NASA in space. She talked
about the need for sophisticated water filtration systems on-board the International
Space Station in order to reduce the amount of fresh water brought from Earth. Ms.
Hill also shared details about implementing the engineering design challenge in
class, including materials and equipment, concepts students will learn, and extension
activities.
Fifty-five (55) participants were present at the live Web Seminar in addition to
the presenter and NSTA staff. Participating educators represented the states of
Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. In addition,
four participants joined the presentation from locations outside of the United States:
Germany, Philippines, and Turkey.
Seminar participants received one of the NSTA SciGuides. A certificate
of attendance was deposited into participants' My PD Record and Certificates
area in the NSTA Learning Center for completing the evaluation form at the end of
the program.
Here are some comments provided by the participants at the end of the Web Seminar:
- “Great lesson to do with students to help them build inquiry skills as well as to help them understand engineering and design processes.”
- “The videos were helpful. I am excited to try this one with my students.”
- “Great seminar. I think the engineering design challenge[s] are great hands-on learning for students.”
- “As a student teacher this gives me great ideas for the classroom.”
Thanks to the participants and the presenter for the learning opportunity, the interactions,
and a job well done!
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NASA Explorer Schools Web Seminars are Scheduled
For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org
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