Learning Goals
Students will be able to explain how water moves among Earth’s systems and is distributed across Hawaiʻi using models of the water cycle, weather, climate, and Earth materials.
Students will be able to analyze how water scarcity, drought, climate change, and human water use affect native animals and ecosystem resilience in Hawaiʻi.
Students will be able to evaluate how Hawaiʻi communities use science ideas to conserve water and protect natural resources and ecosystems.
Students will be able to define a water-filtration problem using measurable criteria and constraints related to water clarity, flow rate, material quantity, safety, and resource use.
Students will be able to test and refine a water-filter prototype by measuring results, graphing quantitative data, comparing design alternatives, and using feedback to justify revisions.
Students will be able to communicate evidence-based recommendations for protecting clean water and healthy ecosystems in Hawaiʻi through a public presentation and written reflection.
Products
Hawaiʻi Water Systems and Filter Engineering Notebook
Each student independently explains Hawaiʻi’s water–ecosystem relationships and community stewardship strategies, then documents multiple filter concepts, criteria and constraints, labeled plans, measurements, graphs, design decisions, revisions, and a final written reflection. All observations of teacher-prepared test water are non-contact, and no test or filtered water is tasted or consumed.
Tested Water-Filter Prototype and Clean-Water PSA Exhibition
Teams build, safely test, graph results for, and revise a water-filter prototype, then present its performance, trade-offs, and limitations alongside an evidence-based clean-water PSA to families, the school community, Papahana Kua‘ola, and Pop Up Labs Hawaiʻi. Teams may create the PSA as either a poster or a short video, and all demonstration water remains nonpotable and is never consumed.
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