Name ____________________ Due Date _________________ I&I___

Aquifer Design Challenge

You are a design team of three will follow design an aquifer to filter one cup of dirty water.

Constraints for the Aquifer

Use a 2 liter bottle, coffee filter
Decide on amount of other materials: sand, kitty litter, rocks
Members may bring other materials from nature

Engineering Design Process:

1. Ask: Define the Problem: Read the rubric
2. Do Background Research: Research worksheet
3. Imagine solutions- Brainstorm Solutions
4. Plan out design- Do Development Work (List materials needed)
5. Create a working model- Build a Prototype
6. Experiment and test model: Present to class
7. Revise and Improve- Redesign

____ 20pts. Research on aquifers (ATTACH WKSHT & SKETCHES FOR EACH MEMBER)

____ 10pts. Brainstorm sketches (DETAILED PARTNER PROTOTYPE)-GROUP DESIGN

____ 20pts. Test results (Data sheet- ON BACK)

_____ 20pts. Redesign / re-create prototype

_____ 10pts. Oral and Written Presentation of results: Write a paragraph re-telling the project,
problems you encountered, and resign ideas if allowed to re-create.

_____ 10pts. Group work (all members are contributing, task oriented)

_____ 10pts. Respectful audience member

____ Final TEST Grade

 AQUIFER DATA SHEET

Date Describe the Describe the Amount of water Variable Notes

color of the smell of the
water water. (waft)
1. Before it was
added to the
aquifer

2. After it came
through the
prototype

3. After it came
through the
redesign

Notes/Questions for engineer

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1st Paragraph include:
Re-state the challenge in own words, the materials you used, and the
constraints.

2nd Paragraph include:

Description of 1st prototype and tell what you noticed (observations), the
data results and your opinion (hypothesis) of why you think it failed or
succeeded. Also, description of the re-design, the data results, and why it
failed or success

3rd Reflection paragraph:

If you could re-create the prototype again, what would you do differently;
how do you think that would to clean the dirty water and why?