Water, water, everywhere, right? Wrong. Learners assess their own knowledge of water availability on Earth. Then, through a reading, a teacher-led presentation, and an activity, pupils learn about the importance of available clean drinking water and its current scarcity around the world.  

Concepts

water, water supplies, water conservation, water usage

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Use in a unit that covers natural resources or impacts of humans on the environment
• Assess learners before the activity on what they believe is the number one most pressing global issue

Classroom Considerations

• There is no link to the actual PowerPoint, so you may need to input the provided slides into your own file
• Slides may take more than one day to cover based on depth of discussions during the presentation

Pros

• The activity includes homework prior to the activity, slides, script for teacher for slides, essential questions, student data worksheet, teacher instructions, and key, quiz, and answer key. 
• Powerpoint slide script includes many places to stop and question the class and discuss

Cons

• None

Common Core

RST.9-10.2