Lesson Description:
After completing this lesson, students will be able to:

• Make an assessment of their own personal water usage.
• Understand the unique properties of water and why it is important to life on Earth.
• Understand how much water is available on Earth and why it is scarce.
• Use their critical thinking skills to debate water scarcity in the U.S.
• Come up with ways to conserve water in their own lives.

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Lesson Type:

• Audit
• Discussion
• Other

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Sustainability Topic:

• Water

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GEF Program Category:

• Sustainable Water Challenge

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Standards Addressed:
This lesson addresses the following national education standards: 
Content Standard: NS.9-12.6 Personal and Social Perspectives 

As a result of activities in Grades 9-12, all students should develop understanding of

• Personal and community health
• Population growth
• National resources
• Environmental quality
• Natural and human-induced hazards
• Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges
• Content Standard: NSS-G.K-12.3 Physical Systems

As a result of activities in grades K-12, all students should: 

• Understand the physical processes that shape the patterns of earth’s surface.
• Understand the characteristics and spatial distribution of ecosystems on Earth’s surface.
• Content Standard: NSS-G.K-12.5 Environment and Society

As a result of activities in grades k-12, all students should

• Understand how human actions modify the physical environment.
• Understand how physical systems affect human systems.
• Understand the changes that occur in the meaning, use, distriof resources.

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Notes:
Http://www.eeweek.org/resources/water_curricula.htm

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Lesson Documents:
Amazing_Precious_9-12.pdf

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