Engineering of Global Health

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 17.06.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Rationale
  4. Objectives
  5. Content Objectives
  6. Strategies
  7. Activities
  8. Lessons
  9. Resources
  10. Notes

Water... "Good To The Last Drop"

Patricia Moncrief

Published September 2017

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Rationale

I want to stress topics that are of critical importance to areas of applied knowledge that all 21st century students need to possess. Problem solving, analytical writing, collaboration, communications and creativity all need to be incorporated into a well balanced practicum. Special Ed, ELL’s, ED (emotionally disturbed) students included and encouraged to participate with general education students throughout the unit. Those students are usually the populations that are overlooked in academic courses, yet they need to be as informed as all other students when it comes to critical matters facing our world.  

I include a service-learning component in this curricular unit because the student population is so diverse with family roots in many countries. It is a real possibility they have to travel abroad for holidays and vacations. They visit relatives in Vietnam, China, the Philippines, or Mexico. Many of them stay in villages where clean water might not be readily available. Water contaminated with human, animal or industrial wastes products pose a greater threat of contracting waterborne illnesses due to the students limited exposure to the water their relatives use. Knowing about potential exposure risks will prepare them to be more careful when swimming or coming in contact with foreign waters.  

In the service-learning component students are asked to either devise apparatuses to trap and collect rainwater, create mechanisms to filter water, or to test and treat potentially contaminated water. When they return to foreign lands students can introduce their designs to their families with the hope it will deliver a cleaner and disease free way of obtaining usable water.

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