Drinking Water Middle Spring – Understanding the Urban Watershed

Drinking Water and You
Grades 6-8

9 Class periods (Unit 2)

1 Freshwater and You!

Water is essential for all living things, including us!

Explore freshwater use and protection

2 Water for the People: Public Water as a civic responsibility (Part 1)

Philadelphia’s early urban water challenges

Public Health Concerns Grow as City Grows

3 Water for the People: Public Water as a civic responsibility (Part 2)

Looking for solutions

Water system as a civic responsibility for public good

4 Design and Engineering: Functional and Beautiful (Part 1)

Engineering a system source to tap

Innovation claims Philadelphia a first in municipal water system design

5 Design and Engineering: Functional and Beautiful (Part 2)

Design as expression of civic pride

Integrating Pumps and Public Parks

6 Drinking Water Treatment Process Explained (Part 1)

By 1909, all Philadelphia drinking water was filtered

Today Drinking water treatment is regulated and tested for health and safety

7 Public Drinking Water Treatment Process Explained (Part 2)

Explore today’s Drinking water treatment multi-step process

8 Regulation, Quality Assurance Testing the Water

Drinking water passes a myriad of tests to comply with regulations

9 Bottle or Tap?

The Value of Tap Water

Put tap to the taste test

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Standards in this Unit

PA STEELS
3.4 Environmental Literacy and Sustainability

Environment and Society 3.4.6-8.B Analyze and interpret data about how different societies (economic and social systems) and cultures use and manage natural resources differently. (LE 4, 5)

Investigating Environmental Issues 3.4.6-8.D Gather, read and synthesize information from multiple sources to investigate how Pennsylvania environmental issues affect Pennsylvania’s human and natural systems. (LE 1, 2, 3, 8)

Environmental Sustainability 3.4.6-8.G Obtain and communicate information to describe how best resource management practices and environmental laws are designed to achieve environmental sustainability. (LE 6, 7, 8)

Sustainability and Stewardship 3.4.6-8.H Design a solution to an environmental issue in which individuals and societies can engage as stewards of the environment. (LE 9)

3.5 Technology & Engineering

Impacts of Technology 3.5.6-8.G Analyze how an invention or innovation was influenced by the context and circumstances in which it is developed. (LE 4, 5)

Unit 2: Drinking Water and You

1 Fresh Water & You

2 Water for the People P1

3 Water for the People P2

4 Engineering a Solution P1

5 Engineering a Solution P2

6 Drinking Water Treatment P1

7 Drinking Water Treatment P2

8 Testing the Waters

9 Bottled or Tap?

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Unit 1 Water in Our World

Unit 3 Down the Drain

Unit 4 Land and Water: Finding the Balance

Planning a Meaningful Watershed Experience

Planning a Meaningful Watershed Experience

Next: Unit 3 Down the Drain

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