Student Objectives:

• Distinguish: Students will analyze and interpret how selected plants will meet the engineering design criteria of providing shade and serving other functions in the integrated design of the rain basin.
• Build the System: Students use mathematics and computational thinking to calculate the watering needs for the project site.
• Relate: Students identify relationships between the amount of water required for native and non-native plants.
• Take a Perspective: From the perspective of the data collected to this point, students construct explanations and design solutions for what their rainwater harvesting system will accomplish.