Fresh Water Supply Water Footprint & Clean Water Access Activity Kit

Explore just how finite our fresh water supply is and how much water humans consume on a daily basis in this 1-2 week activity kit.

Topics include:

• Your students' own daily water footprints
• Water supply crises around the world
• Hundreds of millions without access to improved sanitation and safe drinking water

These 5 activities are perfect for exploring our natural resources in your Human Geography, Current Global Issues, or Environmental Science course.

All student materials come in both print PDF and editable digital Google files.

This kit's routinely revised to keep up-to-date with the most current statistics, data displays, and outside sources. You'll have free access to all future updates. It was last updated in 2023.

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Greatness is believing in the impact of one person's actions.

Many teenagers don’t know the world beyond their own of accessible, safe, and unlimited water. But in developed and developing countries alike, supply issues are threatening daily life: from unsustainable agriculture to inadequate infrastructure to droughts to "absurdly wasteful" water footprints.

Guide your students through 5 eye-opening activities as they grapple with the sobering question: “Just how finite is our water supply?”

Teacher Materials

• Activities overview and detailed daily lesson plans
• Lesson takeaways and planning tips
• Detailed answer keys
• Links to Google versions of student activities

Student Materials & Activities

• Concept Definition notes for developing a deeper understanding of fresh water
• Water Pop Quiz to shock students with facts about the world's freshwater supply
• Water Supply Simulation to really show how little water is usable for human needs
• Personal Water Audit to calculate own water usage and doable conservation tips
• Video Notes to see and hear experts share just how precarious our water supply is
• Data Maps and Graphs Gallery Walk analyzing various worldwide fresh water supply and access issues

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Want to turn this into a whole unit?

• Water Supply & Pollution: a 3-week unit exploring our finite freshwater supply and the human rights, pollution, and conservation issues that need urgent solutions

Looking for more sustainability topics?

These units can be easily integrated into your Current Events, Human Geography, or Environmental Science course

• Plastic & Garbage: a 3-week unit exploring the modern invention of garbage, landfills, and single-use disposables, the effects it is having on our oceans, and how a zero-waste lifestyle can be possible
• Fossil Fuels & Alternatives: a 3-week unit exploring our addiction to oil, the harsh impact it is having on our air pollution and greenhouse gas levels, and the urgent need to switch to clean renewable energy sources
• Sustainability Unit: an 8-week thematic PBL unit that explores all three: water, fossil fuels, and garbage

This listing is for one license for regular, non-commercial classroom use by a single teacher only. Commercial use like online teaching (ex. Outschool) or sharing with other teachers (ex. shared drive, in a Facebook group, in a professional development training) is strictly prohibited.

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