1. Design a Water Filter A Semester-long Thread

2. What does Design, or Engineering, Have to Do With Biology?

3. Using the Engineering Process

4. What is the problem? What does the Solution look like? What is the Design? Implement the Design Test the Design. ASK IMAGINE PLAN CREATE IMPROVE

5. LAB: Testing Porosity ASK

6. LAB: Testing Porosity

7. Reading About Water: Arsenic Crisis in Bangladesh Scientific American July 2004 A. Mushtaque & R. Chowdhury

8. Writing a Reflection Make a Connection between Yourself and the Ideas presented in the article Arsenic Crisis in Bangladesh

9. LAB: Filtering Particulates

10. LAB: Filtering Particulates 1 1.2 1.3 1.6 1.9 0 0 0 0.7 0.8 2 2 2 2 2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7

11. Reading & Lectures: Chemistry for Biology The Properties of Water Diffusion & Osmosis

12. LAB: Engineering a Steady Flow

13. LAB: Engineering a Steady Flow

14. Phospholipid Bilayers: Thinnest of Films, Separating Life and Lysis

15. LAB: Diffusion, Osmosis & Paper Chromatography

16. Reading About Water: Wading in Waste Scientific American June 2006 Thanks to unchecked development along America’s coasts, disease-causing microbes are increasingly fouling beaches and shellfish beds By Michael A. Mallin

17. Reading About Water: Wading in Waste Scientific American June 2006 How do diverse interests solve biological problems? Role Play

18. LAB: Putting it All Together Design a Water Filter

19. Using the Engineering Process to Design a Water Filter Biology 11

20. Photo and Image Credits: Slide 1: Water Drop in Blue series 1-5 http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalantech/ Slide 2: D.M.Fernandes, personal photo. Slide 3, 4, 8, 11, 14, 17: Microsoft Clips Slide 5, 6 left to right, top to bottom: Water Filter Abstract http://www.flickr.com/photos/deqalb/ colour resin cloth http://www.flickr.com/photos/betsymartian/ filter http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheeshoo/ humidifier filter http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawktrainer/ MG3DR-context http://www.flickr.com/photos/merrow/ Slide 7: Dilip Mehta, Contact Press Images, Scientific American , August 2004. Slide 9, 10: Non-Filtered and Filtered Water http://www.flickr.com/photos/sog/ Slide 12, 13: Water Stream http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattholt/ sponge cake (for groc) http://www.flickr.com/photos/rakka/ Slide 15: Chromatography – drying http://www.flickr.com/photos/misstinykitten/ Slide 16: Emily Harrison, Eye of Science, Scientific American , June 2006. Slide 18: Getting Water http://www.flickr.com/photos/seabird/ Non-Filtered and Filtered Water http://www.flickr.com/photos/sog/ Slide 19: Water Drop in Blue series 1-5 http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalantech/