Overall Objectives, SWBAT:
- Identify how habits relate to food/water consuption/environmental impacts
- Propose solutions to food/water availability issues
- Understand general/specific water cycles
- Name dangerous substances/pollutants in water
- Identify health issues with water supply
- Define key terms
- Evaluate how food relates to environmental resources
Module 1: Cycles, SWBAT:
- Explain/draw a water cycle
- Follow domestic water from source to wastewater release
- Identify steps in water preparation
- Identify steps in wastewater disposal
Module 2: Availability/Scarcity, SWBAT:
- Understand human consumption of water
- Identify degrees of sustainability for different water uses/processes
- Explain geographic/economic/political factors in water supply and availability
- Identify limits of water sources (salt vs fresh, natural contamination)
- Explain impacts of water shortages
- Propose conservation solutions
Module 3: Environment/Health Effects, SWBAT:
- Identify pollutants in water
- Explain how pollutants get into water
- Understand persistence, bio-accumulation, toxicity
- Identify human health/ecological effects
- Describe processes for remediation/prevention
Module 4: How we Use Water, SWBAT:
- Identify industry and agriculture as significant uses of water
- Explain why a canal uses wate
- Compare the amount of water that goes into growing food to the amount of food we get
- Identify 2 ways water is used in energy production: cooling and hydroelectric
- Identify environmental impacts from water use for cooling and hydroelectric power
Lesson 1: Introduction to the course
Lesson 2: California's water cycle
Lesson 3: How we use water Readings Worksheet
Lesson 4: Water testing: what is pollution? Worksheet
Module 1: Water Cycles
Lesson 1: The natural water cycle Magnet Images
Lesson 2: Building a sand filter
Lesson 3: Wastewater treatment plants Worksheet
Lesson 4: Aquifers
Module 2: Water Availability and Scarcity
Lesson 1: Water footprint Calculator
Lesson 2: Water War: Fight for water rights Worksheet
Lesson 3: Distillation vs filtration Lab Instructions
Lesson 4: Impacts of water shortages
Module 3: Environmental and Health Effects of Water Pollution
Lesson 1: How pollution gets in water: Leeching and Runoff
Lesson 2: How bad is pollution: Toxicity, Persistence, Bioaccumulation Directions and Worksheet Game Cards
Lesson 3: Identifying Water Pollutants Bioaccumulation! Cards
Lesson 4: Wetland Remediation Worksheet
Module 4: Uses of Water
Lesson 3: Hydropower