Water Consumption Gets The Royal Flush

Description
Students measure home toilet volume and family water consumption via toilets for one week. They will then manipulate the data on graphs, charts, spreadsheets, to discover how much water is being used in different areas by families of varying sizes, lifestyles and regions. It is recommended that you have your students do Bill Lee's MMM Project first, but it's not required.

Grade Level: 5-9

Author
Diane Econom deconom@cris.com




Standards Addressed:
NCTM Standards:
1. Mathematics as Problem Solving
2. Mathematics as Communication
3. Mathematics as Reasoning
4. Mathematics as Connections
5. Number and Number Relationships
6. Number Systems and Number Theory
7. Computation and Estimation
8. Patterns and Functions
10. Statistics
13. Measurement

National Science Education Standards:
Teaching Standard B
Focus and support inquiries while interacting with students.
Orchestrate discourse among students about scientific ideas.
Challenge students to accept and share responsibility for their own learning.
Teaching Standard D
Structure the time available so that students are able to engage in extended investigations.
Create a setting for student work that is flexible and supportive of science inquiry.
Identify and use resources outside the school.
Content Standard F
Populations, resources, and environment.

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