WaterMOBILE
WaterMOBILE
About WaterMOBILE
WaterMOBILE is also a low-cost and simple set of mobile lessons that can be easily adopted by school districts or implemented in classrooms. All activities are connected to the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for science, and WaterMOBILE provides a wonderful visual, hands-on experience to complement our mobile apps, such as WaterPAL. For outreach, each activity can also connect to certain careers in wastewater treatment, giving an opportunity to educate students on the specifics of these careers, and the skills required.
NJSS Activities
Jar Test
Grades | Lesson Plans | NJ Standard |
6-8 | ||
9-12 | Jar Test 9-12 | HS-PS 1-5 |
DIY Watershed
Water Wheels
Testing Water Quality
Grades | Lesson Plans | NJ Standard |
6-8 | Water Quality 6-8 | MS-ETS 1-1 |
9-12 | Water Quality 9-12 | N/A |
Water Quality Video
DIY Water Filters
DIY Water Filters - More resources on YouTube Water Filtration Project: Make Your Own Water Filters
Grades | Lesson Plans | NJ Standard |
6-8 | Water Filter 6-8 | |
9-12 | Water Filter 9-12 | HS-ETS 1-2 |
Water Filter Video
Water Tower
In this activity students will have hands-on experience with the distribution of water from different heights. This experiment can be used in high school and middle school classrooms. It is suggested that high school students calculate the horizontal distance that the water will fall in relation to the height of the output.
Grades | Lesson Plans | NJ Standard |
6-8 | Water Tower 6-8 | |
9-12 | Water Tower 9-12 | N/A |
Water Tower Video
Water Pumps (Connected Bottle)
Gas Transfer
The gas transfer process is used to remove any contaminants from a water sample, which is important to the level of water quality in wastewater. The amount of dissolved oxygen in water impacts the nature of the gas transfer. In this experiment, students will be able to see the correlation between the two for themselves.
Grades | Lesson Plans | NJ Standard |
6-8 | Gas Transfer 6-8 | MS-ETS 1-1 |
9-12 | Gas Transfer 9-12 |
Gas Transfer Video
Falling Water
Grades | Lesson Plans | NJ Standard |
6-8 | Falling Water 6-8 | |
9-12 | Falling Water 9-12 |
Falling Water Video (coming soon)
More on Wheels Activities and Standards
Building A Straw Bridge
Grades | NJ Standard |
6-8 | |
9-12 |
Elephant Toothpaste
The elephant toothpaste experiment is used to demonstrate the chemical reactions that occur when yeast, hydrogen peroxide, dish soap, and water are combined. This experiment allows students to get hands-on experience in an area of chemistry, and facilitate an interest in the chemical engineering field.
Grades | NJ Standard |
6-8 | |
9-12 |
Paper Windmill
The paper windmill experiment is used to demonstrate the conversion of wind into usable energy. The paper windmill displays how wind energy is converted into useful work by rotating the fans. The experiment is done by creating paper blades that catch the wind and use it to rotate the shaft attached and pull whatever object that is attached.
Grades | NJ Standard |
6-8 | |
9-12 |
Robot Hand
The robot hand experiment is used to demonstrate how prosthetics can be created in order to restore normal functions as much as possible. The experiment shows how the engineering field is connected to the medical field, introducing biomedical engineering. The robot hand can be used to demonstrate a functioning prosthetic hand that can pick up an object as an extension of the individual. The hand is built with straws, paper, scissors, tape, and string.
Grades | NJ Standard |
6-8 | |
9-12 |