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Teach Engineering: What's Gotten Into You? ActivityTeach Engineering: What's Gotten Into You? Activity
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TeachEngineering
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Grade
3rd - 5th
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Science
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Activities & Projects
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1080L
Activity

Teach Engineering: What's Gotten Into You?

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In this activity, students use models to investigate the process and consequences of water contamination on the land, groundwater, and plants. This is a good introduction to building water filters found in the associated activity, The Dirty Water Project.

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Concepts

engineering, pollution, water, stem

Additional Tags

environmental engineer, water contamination, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, contamination of groundwater

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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