During this activity, students will learn about porosity and permeability and relate these concepts to groundwater flow. Students will use simple materials to conduct a porosity experiment and use the information to understand how environmental engineers decide on the placement and treatment of a drinking water well.

Concepts

drinking water, engineering, groundwater, permeability, porosity, soil, stem

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Additional Tags

pores, 7.ess.1.a, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, aquifer, porosity and permeability

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Classroom Considerations

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