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TEACHER Robyn Irvine

YEAR
9-10
LEVEL
5
DURATION
3-4 Weeks

Strand Achievement Objectives to be Assessed Learning Outcomes
Resources and Economic Activities
Factors that influence people's access to resources, goods and services
Students will:
- Discuss factors that restrict people's access to safe water
- Discuss factors that enable people to access safe water
Supporting Achievement Objectives Learning Outcomes
Social Organisation
How and why people seek to gain and maintain social justice and human rights
Students will:
- Explain how people gain access to a basic human right such as safe water and sanitation
- Explain how people maintain access to this basic human right
Processes Learning Outcomes
Inquiry Students will:
- Develop a framework for an Inquiry into people's access to safe water and sanitation;
- Communicate relevant information as a formal report using appropriate conventions;
- Draw valid conclusions based on information from the Inquiry;
- Evaluate the Inquiry.
Social Decision Making Students will:
- State possible social actions in relation to the social issue of access to safe water and sanitation;
- Identify the likely consequences of the social actions;
- Identify the preferred social action(s);
- Justify the choice of social action(s).
Requirements
Settings:Global
Perspectives:Current Issues, Gender, Future
Essential Learning About New Zealand Society (ELANZS): Changing patterns of resource and land use.

Assessment
Design your own assessment using the template provided.

TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Smiley Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:

  1. Watery facts
    Some fun facts about water. In groups, students can create Pop Quizzes or Jeopardy Quizzes using the fun facts. The quizzes can be used as lesson starters for the remainder of the unit. Check out the Factfile on water.

  2. Magic Water
    What does water mean to you?

  3. Water as a resource
    What do we use water for?
    Students record each time they use water during a typical day - from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night using the Daily Timetable template.

  4. Global uses of water
    Either provide online access to WaterAid's Gallery of photos or print out selected photos (enough for the students to work in pairs). Students analyse each photograph and describe, in no more than nine words, how water is being obtained or used.

  5. The Water Cycle
    Water as a renewable resource. Link up with the Science Department and try out the Water Cycle Demonstration.

Access to Safe Water

  1. Safe water
    What is safe water?

  2. Water, water everywhere?
    Who has access to safe water?

  3. Why is access to safe water so important?
    Lack of access to safe water leads to illness and death. Improvements in public health and sanitation have had a major impact of people's lives.

  4. A basic human right?
    Are water and sanitation basic human rights?

  5. A Case Study
    In the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea access to safe water and sanitation is a social issue. A New Zealand based charitable trust, Water for Survival, is organising a project to provide sanitation and health education to sixteen schools in the region. Take a virtual field trip to the Eastern Highlands and find out how the project (Project 241) is progressing.

  6. Wrap Up
    Prepare a brochure for children at your local primary school(s) explaining:
    1. why water is so important
    2. why hygiene is important
    3. what they can do to save water
    4. what they can do to keep healthy.

RESOURCES

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