1. Have a few students introduce your class HERE.
(The grid code is worldwaterday)
Tell us where you are from, what local water source you are going to look at, and what the biggest water threat is where you live.
2. Have your students analyze the water.
You can do this anyway that works for your classroom. You can talk about the color and smell, you could record the temperature or pH, you could look at it under a microscope and tell us what you found. You can use any equipment you might have or just make qualitative observations.
We will do this in stations. Here are the STATION SIGNS.
Here are the directions for each STATION. These are written for 7th grade students so feel free to edit away! Both are shared as a PDF. If you want an editable Pages version, contact me and I will send that directly.
Have your students submit their results HERE and also share their thoughts to the FlipGrid that will be opened on Wednesday, March 22.
After results are posted, I would encourage you to have your kids ask questions of other students results. I will share a Numbers document with each teacher that has the shared data in it so your students can compare the different results. They could create charts, graphs, or just look at the results.
3. Have your students come up with an "I Can..." statement.
Their statement should share how they can conserve or protect water. We will open another room on our Flipgrid for this statement on Thursday, March 23. Example: "I can reduce the amount of water I waste by not watering my lawn during the warmest parts of the day"
4. Develop a plan to spread the word and make a difference.
Think Ice Bucket Challenge, but without wasting water. :)
We will open this FlipGrid room for this Friday, March 24.
5. Reflect
Have your students reflect on their learning in our last FlipGrid room (opens next week). What did they learn? What surprised them? What questions do they still have?
So far we are connecting schools in Texas, California, Maine, Ohio, Turkey, India, Bangladesh, Canada, and New Zealand. Feel free to share this with anyone you think might want to join.
Sign up HERE to participate in our World Water Day project for 2017.
