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In Unit 4, students learn how water connects everyone. They analyze the impacts of pollution in the water cycle, learn how climate change affects water security, and play a game to experience how actions in one place impact water security in others. Students survey their community to determine which water security issue is of most concern and what actions people are willing to take to address it. For the digital project, they share their survey results and ideas for how to improve their community’s water security in an infographic.
Enduring Understandings:
The global water cycle connects all people and ecosystems.
Climate change impacts water security and ecosystems around the world. This harms people and the planet.
Human actions impact water security and the health of ecosystems locally and globally.
One of the first tasks was focused on the research of a type of pollution and how it enters the water cycle: through air, land, or water. We learned about its impacts on plants, animals, or people that are part of ecosystems.
GLOBAL SCHOLARSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.pdfThen, they learned about how local choices about water can impact global water security. Through the World of Water Game, they are helped to build perspective-taking skills and better understanding the complexity of water issues.
They continued to learn about these connections by reading their peers’ posts in the From Global to Local discussion board and contributing new perspectives based on their experiences playing the game.
Here you can see one of the reflections:
game.pdfDIGITAL PROJECT
DIGITAL PROJECT
It helped students learn how they can influence their community to act locally and address food security issues globally.
Students surveyed community members to learn which water security issues are most important to people in our community and potential actions to address them. In groups, we reviewed the water security issues and actions listed in the workbook. We thought about what we have learned from Global Scholars and our own experiences to add new ideas.
We agreed on the issues and actions to include in the survey and write them on Google Forms. We planned that each student should send the link to the form to as many people as he could.
144 people answered the survey, as you can see on the pie chart, so we are very satisfied with the help of our community. Thank you everybody!
Students created an infographic to share findings and recommended actions.
They learned new ways to persuade people in our city to increase water security as they replied to their peers in e-classroom
Waters security issues in our city.pdfDigital project (2).pdfInfografia como hacer infografia ilustrado celeste azul.pdfWater Security.pdfAs we had some extra time while we were waiting for the results of the survey, we created some posters to share with our classmates. These posters are on the corridors of our school and also in the TV we have in the school hall.
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