Wat-er We Drinking?

Presentation Preparation
Group Members: Matt Cassidy, Alexis Bishop, Brittany Fung, Lilly Jacob, Date Period
Colette Pedersen 4/17/19 2

Chemistry’s Eight Practices of Science & Engineering

Discuss and complete the following information in regards to your group planning for the ​Water Table Challenge
–​How can we use Chemistry to support the chemical treatment of wastewater and various clean water initiatives​?
You will pitch your project in hopes of building a display to highlight the science and engineering practices of your
proposed project design for the ​North Bay Science Discovery Day.
1. Asking questions (for science) and defining
problems (for engineering)
Your challenge is to create a water table display for the
North Bay Science Discovery Day using the science and
engineering practices of Chemistry.
What further questions do you have about the scientific
process? What problems do you hope to solve in this
challenge?
2. Developing and using models
Describe AND draw/label the design of your water table.
What will it look like, how will the display function/be
interactive, what will you be using to assemble. Full list
of materials & blueprints will be necessary for final pitch
including total cost.

❏ Are we supposed to build a model or is this

just a research based project to show our
ideas?
❏ How much class time is provided for the
project?
❏ If we have to build, what materials will be
provided or what materials would we need to
use in order to build it?
❏ We hope to solve problems with dirty and salt ❏ Fire/ bunsen burner
in water, and try to find different and effective ❏ Aluminum foil
water to clean and filter it.
❏ Tubing
❏ How many tests does it take to fully get all the
❏ Salt Water source
salt out of the water?
❏ Something cold to turn water vapour back
❏ How do we determine the difference between
into water
the dirty water & the clean water?
❏ Large bowl
❏ Do we use the same tests when using different
products such as charcoal & sand?
❏ Small pot
❏ What other products that are in dirty water
that we should use to test?
❏
3. Planning and carrying out investigations 4. Analyzing and interpreting data
What tests do you need to conduct while constructing Review and discuss the data you collected. How did you
your prototype? use your data to decide on the components of your
project. Or how did you analyze others scientific data?
❏ Testing the dirty boiling water in a pot
that’s wrapped around in tin foil
❏ Testing out different ways to make filters,
with charcoal or maybe sand.
❏ We need to test whether boiling the water
actually takes out all outside particles.
❏ Determining when the water has become
drinkable
❏ Testing water with pool stick for pH, total
alkalinity, cyanuric acid, free chlorine, total
chlorine and bromine, and total hardness.
❏ Testing water with bacteria testing strip.
❏ Drinking water test kit. (salinity)
❏ Testing before and after the water is made
drinkable to compare and show the different
properties of each.
❏ Testing different water samples with
different amounts of salt. Similar to the
ocean
❏ https://www.education.com/activity/article/
Take_salt_out_of_salt_water/​ test it by
putting it in the sun
❏ Get real ocean water to test
❏ Salt water with sand
❏ Two part testing with crystals to remove the
gunk and desalination to remove the salt.
5. Using mathematics and computational thinking
Data that you collect, calculations needed, material cost
ect.
❏ Boiling temperature of water
❏ Amount of salt in water- to resemble the
ocean (35 grams of salt for every liter of
water. 8.3 grams of salt for every cup)
❏ Amount of water used
❏ How long we boil water for until the salt
gets taken out
❏ Amount used for the different products we
use(charcoal & sand)
❏ How much water we produced that’s clean
❏ The amount of time it took to produce the
clean water
❏ How many tests it took to produce the clean
water
6. Constructing explanations (for science) and
designing solutions (for engineering)
How does it work? ​Explain in detail​ the chemistry used
to support the chemical treatment of wastewater and/or
various clean water initiatives​?
❏ Wrap a pot of salt water with tin foil, boil it
❏ Insert a tube in the pot in order for the boil
water to travel through
❏ Have another pot with clean cold water &
insert the other end of the tube in it
❏ As the water gets boiled, the outside particles
should evaporate into the air to make the
water drinkable as it gets transferred to the
clean cold water
Desalination is the process of removing salt and
other minerals to create fresh drinkable water. The
water molecules pass through the pores of
nanoporous graphene, while the salt ions are turned
back. The methods can use either thermal processes
or membrane processes. Multistage flash distillation
is a thermal process for large amounts of seawater. It
is based on the fact that boiling temperature of
water is lowered as air pressure drops. When
seawater enters the first stage, some of it boils
making vapour that condensed into freshwater. The
fresh water is collected in trays and the rest of the
seawater repeats the process again.
7. Engaging in argument from evidence
Your challenge is to create and ​effective​, ​safe​,
environmentally friendly​, and ​inexpensive​ water
purifying system. List evidence that your water table has
met the design challenge criteria.
8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating
information
What is your marketing plan/ how will you win the
judges over with you amazing water table display to you
become a finalist for North Bay Science Discovery Day?