Groundwater is one of the largest sources of drinking water, so environmental engineers need to understand groundwater flow in order to tap into this important resource. Environmental engineers also study groundwater to predict where pollution from the surface may end up. In this lesson, students will learn how water flows through the ground, what an aquifer is and what soil properties are used to predict groundwater flow.

Concepts

drinking water, engineering, groundwater, pollution, stem

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Additional Tags

environmental engineering, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, aquifer

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)