Silt in the River Garden
The floating lettuce beds are wilting at noon. Trace the cause before you replace the wrong valve. The path branches. What you ask, and what you do with the evidence, changes the ending.
Student researcher Amina Yusuf joins Dr. Priya Raman and engineer Mateo Cruz at Canal Basin Three. The lettuce leaves in the river garden are drooping even though the water pump is running. Amina must listen to the sensor readout, inspect the intake filter log, and explain what the mesh filter can and cannot fix.
Communicative Objective
Students explain a cause-and-effect chain in an environmental system and state the physical limit of an engineering solution.
Story Cast in This Case
Amina Yusuf
Student researcher
Dr. Priya Raman
Scientist
Mateo Cruz
Engineer
Target Academic Vocabulary (6 Terms)