WAT-ER We Drinking?

Presentation Preparation

Group Members: Daniel Bazikian, Gigi, Nico Date 11/21/19 Period 5

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?
Design a water table display that will be presented at North Bay Science Discovery Day.
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
problems (for engineering)
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
and engineering practices of Chemistry.
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
challenge?
Our Question: Can the scientific method be used
outside of the guidelines we are used to?
We want to clean dirty water through heating it and
catching the steam, letting it cool down and turn back
into the water. If we heat up the water and let it
condense we will be cleaning the water through a
phase change.
2. Developing and using models
Describe AND draw/label the design of your water table.
interactive, what will you be using to assemble. Full list of
materials & blueprints will be necessary for final pitch
play with your prototype?
We originally had developed a model involving catching the
steam in a bowl and letting it drip into the flask through
tubes. However we slightly modified this design to make it
more efficient in our final prototype. Our final design heats
and boils water and dirty water and collects the steam from a
tube directly going from the flask to another container. When
the steam cools down, it goes back to its liquid state where
we would then test both waters and list similarities and
differences. It is interactive because you have to build the
prototype and run the test. Materials needed: Heat source (hot
plate), tubes, beaker, water, dirt water, bottle. It is free
because we have the necessary materials. We are using

3. Planning and carrying out investigations
What tests do you need to conduct while constructing
your prototype?
We tested the water for different components such
as PH level, dissolved oxygen, ammonia-nitrogen,
free total and combined chlorine.
chemistry by checking the water contents for nitrate,
ammonia, sulfate, chlorine, phosphate and fluoride..
Original Prototype:
4. Analyzing and interpreting data
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?
The Scientific data is the steam of the water and dirty water.
We analyzed it by conducting tests to find similarities and
differences between the clean and dirty water.
5. Using mathematics and computational
thinking
Data that you collect, calculations needed, material
cost ect.
We conducted tests measuring nitrate, ammonia,
sulfate, chlorine, phosphate and fluoride of both
the dirty and clean water.
We compared the data found by the various tests.
In most cases we would need to calculate the price
of materials needed however we have all of the
materials available for use for free and if they
were not available, everything combined would be
under $10 besides another $15 for the hot plate.
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.
Our prototype is cheap as it requires bowls, tubes,
water, and a Heat source (hot plate) and power. It is
also environmentally friendly as it is only using
electricity for the heater. Lastly, it completes the task
of purifying the water by collecting the steam and
leaving everything else out. Efficiently as well, as it
does not take a long time to heat up the water, collect
the steam, and cool it down.
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?
Chemicals are used during wastewater treatment in
many different processes to speed up disinfection.
These chemical processes, which induce chemical
reactions, are called chemical unit processes and are
used alongside biological and physical cleaning
processes to achieve various water standards.
However, we have taken dirty water, found in a pond for
example, and have heated it causing the H2O to
convert into a gas state leaving the rest of the gunk
behind.
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?
We will show the judges how our prototype is cheap because
the materials required can be found in your house. They are
also effective in purifying water as when water is boiled the
steam contents are only water.