WASTEWATER TREATMENT – FRONTLINE ENVIRONMENTALISTS
LESSON 9: Wastewater Scavenger Hunt
OUTCOME: Students will gain factual information and communication skills by the direct questioning of expert sources at a wastewater treatment plant
CONDITIONS: Students will participate in a 2-3 hour field trip to a local wastewater treatment plant.
TEACHER STUDENT
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v Teacher will provide clipboards, disposable cameras and scavenger hunt sheets to students placed heterogeneous groups of 4-5 students for the tour |
v Students will ask questions and take pictures at various points of the tour to complete their scavenger hunt worksheets. |
MATERIALS:
1. Disposable cameras for each student group
2. Clip boards for each student group
3. Scavenger Hunt worksheets.
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT:
Students will be assessed on language arts elements using the Access Academic Rubric and on the SCANS elements using the Access Life-skills Rubric
MODIFICATIONS/ACCOMODATIONS:
Special needs students will be accommodated by
v the use of text reading and word prediction software.
v being allowed to take longer to do any of the component exercises.
v allowing students with limited writing skills to be paired with a more able peer to complete exercise.
v allowing students who receive a one or a two any major component of the project to edit and rewrite a second time.
v helping individual students directly to organize ideas and sentences.
STANDARDS:
1. SCANS Standards
1. Select and evaluate information.
2. Select ways to organize information
3. Interpret and communicate information
1. Contribute ideas, suggestions and effort for completion of group tasks.
2. Solve conflicts in positive ways
3. Cooperate as a member of a multi-ethnic, mixed gender team.
1. Take a picture of the headworks.
2. Where does the gravel and rocks go?
3. What is the largest thing that has been removed from the headworks?
4. Take a picture of the Plant Operator.
5. How did he start a career in wastewater treatment?
6. What job at the plant requires college degree in chemistry?
7. What is bio-assay?
8. Take a picture of a fish.
9. What is the largest pump in the plant?
10. Where do aerobic bacteria live?
11. Take a picture of secondary treatment
12. Where do the anaerobic bacteria live?
13. What is BOD?
14. What is a dissector
15. Take a picture of a tree growing out of the top of a tank.