mary leboulanger conrad high school dallas isd mentor: dr. bryan boulanger civil engineering dept....
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Mary LeBoulangerConrad High SchoolDallas ISD
Mentor:
Dr. Bryan BoulangerCivil Engineering Dept.Texas A&M University
Water????
….Not enough, not clean enough,
Let’s fix it!!!!!
Pranav Nagarnaik
Dr. Bryan Boulanger
Ishan Desai
Yhousuf Jamal
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 filtercollect and manipulate real world, meaningful
data. Use technology that may not be familiarLink 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 2:1. Gather
water 2. Examine the water
3. Filter water through the ceramic filters
4. Measure and graph flow rate.
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 demonstration2. 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
VocabularySome 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