WAT-ER We Drinking?

Presentation Preparation
Group Members:Sarah Ng, Ryan Miller, Elliot Date:11/7/19 Period:4
Thurlow, Derek Dela Cruz

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​?
​ orth Bay Science Discovery Day​.
Design a water table display that will be presented at N
Use the principles of chemistry to support your topic selection, research, testing, prototype, water table display and
to educate others about the WAT-ER they’re Drinking or to solve a global/local H2woe.
You will pitch your project/prototype to members of Novato Sunrise Rotary. Top groups will be selected to build a
display to highlight the science and engineering practices of your proposed project design.

1. Asking questions (for science) and defining 2. Developing and using models
problems (for engineering) Describe AND draw/label the design of your water table.
Your challenge is to create a water table display for the What will it look like, how will the display function/be
North Bay Science Discovery Day using the science interactive, what will you be using to assemble. Full list of
and engineering practices of Chemistry. materials & blueprints will be necessary for final pitch
What further questions do you have about the scientific including total cost. What chemistry principles come into
process? What problems do you hope to solve this play with your prototype?
challenge?
People will come up and taste the super water. And mash
What nutrients can we put in water? We hope to solve prunes to make prune juice.
malnutrition.

3. Planning and carrying out investigations 4. Analyzing and interpreting data

What tests do you need to conduct while constructing
your prototype?
We need to measure the nutrients in the water. We
also need to figure out how many prunes we need
to put in the vitamin water.
Review and discuss the data you collected. How did you use
your data to decide on the components of your project. Or
how did you analyze other scientific data?
We will use the data we found to determine which vitamins
we want to have in our product by examining which ones are
a necessity in a personś diet. Something that will also play
into this is analyzing our own diets and finding out which of
the essential vitamins and minerals we tend to be lacking.
Then we will choose ingredients based on the vitamins and
minerals they contain. We will be finding ingredients that
have most of the vitamins that we need in order to minimize
the cost of the total product.
5. Using mathematics and computational 6. Constructing explanations (for science) and
thinking designing solutions (for engineering)
Data that you collect, calculations needed, material How does it work? ​Explain in detail​ the chemistry used to
cost ect. support the chemical treatment of wastewater and/or various
○ Vitamin A clean water initiatives​?
■ 5000 IU (0.0015g) Mashing up the prunes make them into a more soluble state
■ C​20​H​30​O in which we are able to then turn into a solution known as
○ Vitamin B​6 prune juice. This solution has the vitamins of prunes,
■ 2mg (0.002g) however is now in a liquid state that is then mixed into the
■ C​8​H​11​NO​3 vitamin water. Now it is a super solution that has the
○ Vitamin B​12 properties of vitamin water and prune juice to make a better
■ 6 mcg (0.000006g) water that has more nutrients.
■ C​63​H​88​CoN​14​O​14​P
○ Vitamin C
■ 60 mg (0.06g)
■ C​6​H​8​O​6
○ Vitamin E
■ 30 IU (0.027g)
■ C​29​H​50​O​2
○ Vitamin K
■ 80 mcg (0.00008g)
■ C​31​H​46​O​2 
○ Iron
■ 18mg (0.018g)
■ Fe
○ Calcium
■ 1000 mg (1g)
■ Ca
○ Potassium
■ 3500 mg (3.5g)
■ K

● Vitamin water (1 bottle)- $1.09

● 15 Prunes - $2
● Water (50ml)- $0
● Total: $3.09
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.
Effective- All ingredients that contain the vitamins and
there aren many, limiting the complication.
Safe- Using as already approved product and using
natural ingredients.
Environmentally friendly- Vitamin water is already
being made and prunes are natural.
Inexpensive- There are only 3-4 ingredients that cost a
total of $3.09.
8. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating
information
What is your marketing plan/ how will you win the judges
over with you amazing water table display so you become a
finalist for North Bay Science Discovery Day?
By putting a unique twist on the prompt given to us and
making it very interactive by allowing people to make prune
juice themselves.