Desalination Design Challenge: 06 Desalination Design

In this multi-day culminating lesson, students construct, test, and evaluate their own desalination devices using the engineering design process. Building on prior lessons about water scarcity, filtration, evaporation, and biomimicry, students collect data on device performance, assess sustainability and efficiency using defined criteria, and propose evidence-based design improvements. Through collaborative testing, reflection, and presentation, students develop a deeper understanding of desalination as a real-world sustainability challenge and practice systems thinking, data analysis, and iterative problem solving.