Once upon a time there were rivers full of water

This activity lays out the big question of our global water problem. Students often have difficulty truly visualizing water scarcity. Students will first analyse the use of water in daily life and then experience the effects of water scarcity. In addition, they will visualize the importance of water to humans and brainstorm ways that they can reduce their own water usage. Through critical and creative thinking and problem-solving, students will create novel solutions and illustrate their ideas.

• Understand the importance of water and problems of water scarcity

• Understand how human actions modify the physical environment 

• Understand how physical systems affect human systems

This unit has a creativity and critical thinking focus:

• Make connections between water shortage and own life

• Consider different perspectives on water shortage

• Generate and play with unusual ideas to propose methods of managing problem of water shortage 

Web and Print

• Water shortage videos (links given above) 

Other

• Notebooks

Opportunities to Adapt Extend and Enrich

• A variety of lesson plans and teaching tools on water scarcity can be found at https://thewaterproject.org/resources/

•  Students can be set various water challenges. See, for example, https://www.studentsrebuild.org/sites/default/files/files/Water%20Challenge%20Curriculum_FNL.pdf 

English Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UU5cVGsyJgw8Qw5awFMOo6Nj57BpBcW5RfR7W0aQTUA/edit?usp=sharing 

Hindi Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mEvRcUCB9gri8l5BTe6Y57yFQ1Sn14IMvCZfpp5ffGo/edit?usp=sharing 

Gujarati Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/103dWojG1YK6RY5wBHcP6HbyUf4j-0-xrL7iTgJxHRCs/edit?usp=sharing

Kannada Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DkQhe0sxoZJLjEi6Yv2G95jwB9FR0BsZ8H3emgKehP8/edit?usp=drive_link