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Engineering design: capturing rainwater — Homework

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Engineering design: capturing rainwater — Homework

Design a rain-capture system for a real or imagined home roof, following the engineering design process.

  1. 1.What is one criterion (requirement) your rain-capture design must meet?
  2. 2.What is one constraint (limit) your design must work within?
  3. 3.Describe your rain-capture design: what catches the water, what filters debris, and where the overflow goes.
  4. 4.Name the water cycle stage that a rain-capture barrel is designed to intercept.
  5. 5.Explain one way you could test whether your design actually works before trusting it during a real storm.
🌲 Homeschool of the FutureSixth Grade · Science · week 8 homework