Modeling Water Filtration

by: Melissa Parks
edited by: Linda Froschauer

Model-eliciting activities (MEAs) create opportunities to incorporate new standards and evaluate teacher performance. MEAs are simulated real-world problems that integrate engineering, mathematical, and scientific thinking as students find solutions for specific scenarios. In this chapter, an MEA was created that would challenge students to build a cost-effective water filter to clean a water sample of pollutants. Using MEAs affords students the opportunity to explore a new way of problem solving that requires them to plan, build, test, and redesign. A materials list, teacher background information, assessments, and outcomes are provided. This book selection includes the Table of Contents, Introduction, References, and Index.

Grade Levels

Elementary

Topics

Engineering Interdisciplinary Physical Science STEM

Details

Type Book ChapterPub Date 5/17/2016Pages 27Stock # PB413X_36

NSTA Press produces classroom-ready activities, hands-on approaches to inquiry, relevant professional development, the latest scientific education news and research, assessment and standards-based instruction.

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