Water for Life
The "Water for Life" workshop is a one-hour fun and interactive in-class presentation delivered by the Clean Calgary Association. This dynamic presentation will cover the importance of water for living and nonliving things, water quantity issues including sources of water on the planet and their distribution, water quality issues such as pollution to its sources along with ways in which we use water, and opportunities we have to conserve water which is essential to life.
Benefits of this workshop:
- Through activities designed to engage learners in a variety of learning styles, students will understand that water is essential for life.
- Several learner expectations in the 'Exploring Liquids' section of grade two science are addressed, and many more learner expectations from other areas of the grade two curriculum are woven in.
- With world water issues becoming more and more prevalent in media coverage, students will become versed in areas of basic understanding.
- Students will have the opportunity to identify their own water use practices and determine appropriate ways that they can conserve water, along with the benefits of their actions.
Target audience:
- Grade 2 students
- 1 class per workshop for optimum learning achievement
By the end of this workshop, students will have:
- Considered a variety of ways and uses we have for water in our society, and realize its importance for living and non-living things.
- Through a visual demonstration, learned about salt and freshwater sources on the planet and realize the limited quantity of water suitable for human use and consumption.
- Learned that water usage varies between countries around the world, and consider reasons why Canadians use more than most other countries.
- Learned the ways human activity impacts water quality, along with the reasons we (and other beings) rely on good quality water.
- Considered the accessibility they have to good quality water and determine if this affects the ways and amounts of it they use.
- Identified several ways they can curb their own water use and in this way conserve water for continued availability of water around the world.
- Discussed a method and generated excitement for testing a common area of water wastage in Canadian homes, and identified possible responses to the information they find.
How schools can participate:
Bookings are available through the Clean Calgary Association. The cost to the school for this workshop is $75 for the first class. Discounts available for multiple presentations on one day (not limited to Waste in our World).
For more information or to book, please contact Lindsay at lindsay@cleancalgary.org or by phone: 403-230-1443 ext 225.
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