Each group needs:

• One 1.5 foot (0.5 m) plastic tubing or PVC pipe with 1.5 inch (3.81 cm) or greater inner diameter; available at hardware stores (see Figure 1, which shows an example tube that is longer than 1.5 feet; it is recommend to cut tubes to 1.5 feet to avoid difficulties in removing filter materials)
• Two 250 ml beakers
• 50-100 ml chlorinated water; this 200 ppm solution is prepared by the teacher using Clorox® germicidal bleach; see instructions in the Procedure section
• 50 ml graduated cylinder
• Plastic spoon, to load sands and activated carbon
• Sieve, to separate small materials
• Lab safety gloves, one pair per student per day, such as disposable nitrile gloves available at Amazon
• Lab book or notebook, one per student; alternatively, have students record all necessary information throughout the activity on blank sheets of paper and staple them together to serve as a lab "book" for the activity
• Safety goggles, enough so that each student in a team can wear goggles while handling and testing the chlorinated solution
• Engineering Design Report Scoring Rubric, one per student
• Claim-Evidence-Reasoning Graphic Organizer, two per student

To share with the entire class:

• Activated carbon, either granules or pellets; for cleanup, pellets are easier to separate with a sieve at activity end; see material life expectations note, below
• Filter media, such as cotton balls, fish filter media, carbon infused filter media, 50 micron felt pad, cheesecloth, cotton cloth or whatever is available
• Fine-grained sand
• (for teacher use only!) Clorox® germicidal bleach; used to make a chlorinated water solution; 2 teaspoons bleach per gallon of water
• Pitcher or other container large enough to hold a gallon of water, for preparing the chlorinated water
• "Free" and total low-level chlorine water quality test strips, such as Hach's "Free & Total Chlorine Test Strips, 0-10 mg/l," 50 strips, 0-10 ppm
• Sanitizer-strength chlorine test strips, such as LaMotte's "4250-BJ sanitizer strength chlorine test strips," 200 strips, 0-200 ppm, from Cole-Parmer
• Stopwatch
• Sink, tap water, soap, towels

Note: A pound of activated carbon can remove 200 ppm chlorine from 843 gallons, as calculated from https://www.waterprofessionals.com/learning-center/dechlorination/. Thus, a supply of activated carbon is reusable for several years of experiments.