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Sustainability Lesson Clearinghouse
Water: An Amazing and Precious Resource
Lesson Description:
After completing this lesson, students will be able to:
After completing this lesson, students will be able to:
- Make an assessment of their own personal water usage
- Understand the unique properties of water and why it is important to life on earth
- Understand how much water is available on earth and why it is scarce
- Use their critical thinking skills to debate water scarcity in the u.s.
- Come up with ways to conserve water in their own lives
Lesson Type:
- Audit
- Discussion
- Other
Sustainability Topic:
- Water
GEF Program Category:
- Sustainable Water Challenge
Time Needed:
2 class periods (class 1: warm-up through activity two, class 2: activity three and wrap-up)
2 class periods (class 1: warm-up through activity two, class 2: activity three and wrap-up)
Standards Addressed:
This lesson addresses the following national education standards:
Content Standard: NS.9-12.6 Personal and Social Perspectives
As a result of activities in Grades 9-12, all students should develop understanding of
As a result of activities in grades K-12, all students should:
As a result of activities in grades k-12, all students should
This lesson addresses the following national education standards:
Content Standard: NS.9-12.6 Personal and Social Perspectives
As a result of activities in Grades 9-12, all students should develop understanding of
- personal and community health
- population growth
- national resources
- environmental quality
- natural and human-induced hazards
- science and technology in local, national, and global challenges
- Content Standard: NSS-G.K-12.3 Physical Systems
As a result of activities in grades K-12, all students should:
- understand the physical processes that shape the patterns of earth’s surface.
- understand the characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on earth’s
- surface.
- Content Standard: NSS-G.K-12.5 Environment and Society
As a result of activities in grades k-12, all students should
- understand how human actions modify the physical environment.
- understand how physical systems affect human systems.
- understand the changes that occur in the meaning, use, distriof resources.
Materials Needed:
- Reproducible #1 – Personal Water Audit
- Reproducible #2 – Water is Amazing!
- Prize or reward for winning team(s) of Water is Amazing!
Submitted By:
Green Education Foundation (GEF) on Behalf of Earth Day Network
Green Education Foundation (GEF) on Behalf of Earth Day Network
School or Group:
Earth Day Network
Earth Day Network
Contact Email:
service@greeneducationfoundation.org
service@greeneducationfoundation.org
Notes:
Http://www.eeweek.org/resources/water_curricula.htm
Http://www.eeweek.org/resources/water_curricula.htm
Located in: Social Studies
