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Down The Drain: How Water Journeys Through City Sewers

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Science Friday

Water travels down the drain into a city sewer. Credit: Shutterstock

Subject Science — Earth and Space Science, Engineering, Technology, and Application of Science, Life Science

Grade Level Grades 3-8

Resource Type Article

Attributes

Gifted and Talented, Good for Parents

Standards Alignment

Next Generation Science Standards

License

Attribution Non-commercial ShareAlike

CC (BY-NC-SA)

About This Lesson

Investigate how water travels through city sewers and impacts the environment. Then, experiment to address urban flooding and pollution.

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Why do some neighborhoods flood when it rains? What happens to water after it goes down the drain? And what does that water carry? How does so much plastic pollution end up on shorelines? Could these things all be connected?

Gifted and Talented Lesson Plans

Science Experiments At Home

Resources

Files

Down The Drain_ How Water Journeys Through City Sewers.pdf

Article

September 23, 2024

15.39 MB

External resources

Down The Drain: How Water Journeys Through City Sewers

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Standards

3-5-ETS1-1

Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

3-5-ETS1-2

Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

3-5-ETS1-3

Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

MS-ESS3-2

Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.

MS-ESS3-3

Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.

MS-ESS3-4

Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per-capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth's systems.