This activity looks at physical models of groundwater and how environmental engineers determine possible sites for drinking water wells. During this activity, students will create their own groundwater well model using a coffee can and wire screening. The students will add red food coloring to their model to see how a pollutant can migrate through the groundwater into a drinking water resource.

Concepts

drinking water, engineering, groundwater, pollution, water, stem

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Additional Tags

ground pollution, water table, well, 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)