Mississippi Science E.1.10.3
The Standard
- E.1.10
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of human dependence on clean and renewable water resources
Create a device that will collect free water to meet a human need (e.g., household drinking water, watering plants/animals, cleaning). Use an engineering design process to define the problem, design, construct, evaluate, and improve the device. *
2026 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Science · Earth’s Resources
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students choose a need, such as watering a class plant, and design a device to catch rainwater. They build it, test it with simulated rain, and change one part based on the results.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can show where rain enters the device and where the water is stored. They compare two tests and explain how their change affected the amount collected.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think pouring water into a cup counts as making a collector. Others add a funnel but forget a container underneath, or change several parts at once and cannot tell what helped.
How to Assess It
- After two spray-bottle rain tests, ask students to draw their collector for watering the class plant, circle the test that caught more water, and name one change they made.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Tape foil funnels to cups, spray each with ten squirts of water, then change the funnel shape and test again.
Ask, "Where does rain go on our playground, and how could we catch some to water the class plant?"
Give pairs picture cards of cups, funnels, lids, and trays; have them build two collector plans and predict which catches more spray-bottle rain.
Show a photo of a rain barrel beside a garden, and have students trace how rain moves from the roof to the plants.
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