Once we figured out how our drinking water was made clean enough to consume, we were off to answer remaining questions on our DQB that centered around:
1. How Lake Michigan is refilled since we're constantly taking water out of it!
2. The "Mystery Pipe" in the sewer system...
We turned to a video investigation idea to help us with how the lake refills, figuring out that rain can't possibly be the only way the Lake refills. We totally had an aha! moment when we realized that runoff and infiltration play a role in refilling it!
1. How Lake Michigan is refilled since we're constantly taking water out of it!
2. The "Mystery Pipe" in the sewer system...
We turned to a video investigation idea to help us with how the lake refills, figuring out that rain can't possibly be the only way the Lake refills. We totally had an aha! moment when we realized that runoff and infiltration play a role in refilling it!
The Water Cycle
This video uses animation, graphics, and video clips to illustrate and explain each of the "flow" and "storage" processes in the Hydrologic Cycle, more commonly known as the Water Cycle: precipitation, interception, runoff, infiltration, percolation, groundwater discharge, evaporation, transpiration, evapotranspiration, and condensation.
We also realized that the "mystery pipe" was pretty mysterious, and while we had initial ideas regarding it's destination, we turned to our very own Water Reclamation District for some help!
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Of all the information that we read through, THIS picture below caught us off guard! If the entire reservoir system gets too full, the sewer OVERFLOWS into a waterway. In our case, this is the Chicago River. YIKES!
There are so many problems with this, and we began identifying them left and right. Between the two classes of fifth grade, we came up with system problems after we felt we answered our Driving Question for the unit.
We'll be thinking about how we can solve these water-related problems...
And we also wanted to see just how many questions we could answer that we asked throughout our unit...
And boy, are we proud! Our DQB is virtually empty of questions! We answered SO MANY!
And we also wanted to see just how many questions we could answer that we asked throughout our unit...
And boy, are we proud! Our DQB is virtually empty of questions! We answered SO MANY!