Procedures
  1. Students will work in teams of 3 to design a filter using the above list of materials to effectively filter out microplastics from a water sample.
  2. Students will be able to test their design to make sure the filter holds up from passing tap water through the filter and make adjustments as the team sees fit to finish their design to be tested.
  3. Teams will be given a sample of water from the watershed that was tested in the PreActivity to test their filters.
  4. Students will then graph the number of microplastics in their 1L sample after using the filter they designed.
  5. Students will compare their filtered data numbers with their non-filtered data (from Pre Activity) to make conclusions whether their design was effective at filtering out microplastics.