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Engineering Design Challenge: Water Filtration
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This seminar featured background information about recycling, filtering water, and
a classroom challenge for students. Earth recycles water naturally. Water is also
recycled in processing plants by humans and in the Water Recycling Assembly on the
International Space Station. During this seminar, educators got background information
about the principles that apply to all three systems and then found out how to incorporate
the information into an exciting hands-on, inquiry-based challenge that requires
students to solve a problem in the best way they can create. Participants watched
a video showing one possible solution and students engaged in the challenge. Educators
discussed possible modifications to the challenge to adapt it for their students
and classroom situations.
Details
This web seminar is part of a series of electronic professional development experiences
sponsored by the NASA Explorer Schools (NES) project. NASA Explorer Schools invests
in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educators to inspire and engage
a whole generation of future scientists, engineers and technicians that NASA needs
to continue our journey. NES gives educators of grades 4-12 free access to NASA’s
people, missions, research, and facilities. We take the work out of searching through
thousands of materials on the NASA website and provide a comprehensive set of teaching
materials for dozens of STEM concepts. For additional information about the NASA
Explorer Schools project, visit
http://explorerschools.nasa.gov.
See when other
NASA Explorer Schools Web Seminars are Scheduled
For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org
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Sponsored by NASA
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