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Here is the final pitch for parents and water treatment plant employees.

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Students chose to make posters to present their solution ideas.

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In the end, the group worked together to come up with a way that all of the great individual solution ideas could be used. They decided that the water treatment plant needed a goose chase scavenger hunt style game and each of their ideas could be a station.

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Each student came up with a question for the staff at the water treatment plant and were able to share it during a zoom meeting. The workers were very impressed with the questions and the perspective it gave them when thinking about the future visitors.

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"Can the workers talk to the students?" (Marco)                                                              "How old do you have to be to work there?" (Jayden)

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"Is there stuff we can touch?" (Luna)                                                         "Can we do experiments in the lab?" (Libby)  

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"Are there more places we can visit or better places to sit?" (Colt)                            "What do you like about the field trips?" (Elliott)

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"Can you tell us so more about the history of the building?" (Matthew)

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The group was a little shocked at first when we told them we would be writing love and break-up letters. They wrote to the field trips telling them what they loved and then we made a list of aspects of each trip that we would leave out.

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Miss Ashley is showing us the lab. This is part of the current field trip experience.

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We coordinated a field trip at the Water Treatment Plant. The current field trip program is lacking. Students experienced the current programming and made "bug lists" during the experience. 

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We coordinated a field trip at the Water Treatment Plant. The current field trip program is lacking. Students experienced the current programming and made "bug lists" during the experience. 

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Miss Ashley is showing us the water filtration tanks! This is part of their current field trip experience

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Our entry event was a “boring “field trip that MissAshley would like to revamp at the water treatment plant

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Entry Event Part 2: Exploring the Holland Energy Park Visitor Center 

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Entry Event Part 2: Exploring the Holland Energy Park Visitor Center 

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WATER we going to do at the Water Treatment Plant to FILTER out the boring and SOAK UP the fun?

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WATER we going to do at the Water Treatment Plant to FILTER out the boring and SOAK UP the fun?

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"Our favorite part was the field trip where we go to look at the giant water filters."

Matthew and Marco

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Thank you both for everything this week

Matthew had a ton of fun. You rocked it!! The kids did so awesome on their presentations. Great work.

Alex

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"Luna couldn't stop talking about all the things she has learned and the ideas that she has. I told her she needs to take advantage of any opportunity she can get like this."

Luna's Dad

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“I want to come back next year." I liked learning about the jobs and the new places. I'll ask my cousin to come too."Luna

"I like the whole week. My favorite part was the whole week."

Eliot

"Our favorite part was the Goose Chase and ice cream." Everybody

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“Filtering Out” would you rather questions!

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To teach and reinforce the vocabulary word filter, we invited students to make water filters

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To teach and enforce the vocabulary word filter, we gave campers a water, filtration maker event!

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Student sketch, designs as they prepared to engineer something that will save a water balloon from a drop

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Students were given 3 minutes to brainstorm as many ideas as they could to make field trips better

We took 12 minutes to group/combine ideas into categories

The final three minutes was for share and narrow down eliminate some of the ideas.

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Celebrating a successful pitch with a visit from the Holland PD Ice Cream Truck (one of our students dads is on the PD)

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"Who has the most energy?" Duck Flinging Fun

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Team Building: Water Cycle Rock Paper Scissors 

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Team Building: Water Cycle Rock Paper Scissors 

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Team Building: Make and Take Rain Gauge 

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Team Building: Make and Take Rain Gauge 

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At the end of each day, we reflected with the group with this protocol

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Students used the list of generalized ideas to make a poster of some possible solutions.

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Each student was given three dots that they could place in any combination on their favorite solution idea posters.

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Thanks so much! Your group did great – I really love the idea of doing smaller stations to split students into smaller, more manageable groups. And I know the Water Treatment operators would definitely not mind having some putt putt golf on site.

Ashley

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Our group had the opportunity to present in front of the high schoolers for some feedback

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While we were working out of Holland Energy Park, our driving question centered around the water treatment center. We continued to have water themed events to remind students to think back to our driving question location.

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As a group we thought about the different stakeholders in future field trips. These included students, parent chaperones, workers and teachers.

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Overall, the week was a great success. We reached the gold standard with our business partner, who brought incredible passion to making both the energy park and water treatment plant exciting and engaging spaces for “edutainment.” The students thoroughly enjoyed the field trip experience, and the driving question was thoughtfully designed to match their developmental level.

We also received a lot of positive feedback from families. Many appreciated the chance for students to work with real business partners, collaborate with peers, present their ideas, and explore how each plant serves the community through the design process. Parents shared that the project sparked rich conversations at home, with plenty of ideas flowing around the dinner table.