Lesson 3 - Creating

Content Descriptors from the Australian Curriculum

Knowledge and Understanding: Collect, select and record relevant geographical data and information, using ethical protocols, from appropriate primary and
secondary sources (ACHGS048)
Geographical Inquiry and Skills: Interpreting, analysing and concluding: Apply geographical concepts to draw conclusions based on the analysis of the
data and information collected (ACHGS052)
Geographical Concept Change an awareness of change over time and space and the phenomena that causes change
Time

10
mins

15min
s

Learning procedures

Teacher Talk

Phase 1 Introduce, engage,

focus, advance organiser, review
prior knowledge, hook
1. Greet the students a give a
summary of what the focus of
the lesson is
2. Structure the expectations of
the lesson, for both behaviour
and work
3. Ask if anyone knows what
water scarcity is
4. Write definition of water
scarcity
5. Generate a mind map of what
causes water scarcity
6. Allow students to work in pairs
and come up and write on the
board
7. Discuss each of the examples
8. View Worldometer and discuss
how population growth the
population growth in just one
day. Compare to how many
people have died today. How
might this affect the amount
of water we need? Out of all
the water in the world, only
0.5% of it is available to use
and drink it must be shared
out between the total world
population each day.
9. Go to the water section on
Worldometer and identify how
many people right now do not
have a safe drinking water
source in the world

Good morning Seniors. Today we will be looking at something called water

scarcity. We will investigate how different elements can change what effect
they have on the amount of water supply around the world. You will be
investigating how much water you use per day at home. From this, you will
get into pairs to create a poster displays ways to reduce water usage
around the house.
To begin, what is water Scarcity? Does anyone know already? Water
scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the
demands of water usage within a region. So what elements can cause a
lack of supply of water?
Water scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the
demands of water usage within a region. It already affects every continent
with more than 1.2 billion people lacking access to clean drinking water.
What are some possible causes of water scarcity? Come up the front and
write on the board when you have an answer. You may work in pairs to
discuss answers around the mind map.

Resources and
ICTs
Graphic organiser
materials
Smartboard or
projector
http://www.worldo

Assessment
& feedback

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White strips of
paper
Bluetak
Laminator
13 A3 blank white
posters
Colouring in
materials
The Water Project
http://thewaterpr
Im going to show you something pretty cool right now on Worldometer.
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Take a look at the population. This system is keeping track of how many
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babies have been born today. Isnt that interesting! Compare it to how
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many people have died today. Look at how many people have died today
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compared to how many people were born. How might this affect the
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absolute need of water around the world? Today, the world has grown by
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200,000 people image an extra 200,000 people every day, needing to
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share the same water supply. Jumping down to the water section. Look at
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how many people do not have a safe drinking water source around the
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have available to use and consume? What happens when there is a
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drought? No rain. No rain means no water or a lack of water supply water
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scarcity. What about too much rain? How do floods affect the water supply?

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When it floods, all the sediments get disrupted and dirt is washed off
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everything and flows into the towns water supply making it dirty and
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unsuitable to drink. When it floods, the sewage system gets overfilled and
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that water backs up, contaminating the water. So population and climate

Virtual
Diary did
the
learners
capture the
realistic
water issue
in the
world? Did
they
sympathise
with the
people who
are less
fortunate
than they
are?
Poster did
the
students
include
effective
ways to
reduce
water
usage in
their
home/scho
ol?
Graphic
organiser
did the
students
accurately
select and
record data

10. Discuss how climate disasters

such as floods and droughts
effect water supply how
different elements, causes and
reasoning behind how specific
issues affect the water source

Phase 2 Develop skills &

knowledge, build, practice,
acquire, integrate, extend, refine
15
mins

1. Students design a graphic

organiser to estimate how
much water they use per day.
How much water does each
house appliance use?
2. Analyse and calculate and
record the total amount of
water, in litres, used per day
3. Compare the findings to other
students
Phase 3 Conclude, culminate,
draw together, review &
summarise key learnings, checks
for learning, consolidation,
homework/review tasks
1. As a class, analyse the data in
the graphic organiser
2. Brainstorm ways of reducing
water usage around the house
by using a mind map (each
student writes a possible way
on a piece of paper and places
it around the mind map.
3. Assemble a team of experts to
research an effective project
that sponsors countries with
water scarcity
4. Watch The Water Project
YouTube clip (What do
donations go towards?)

really do affect and change the amount of water supply.

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Now we are going to look at how much water you as individual people use.
Using the graphic organiser, estimate the amount of times you use each
appliance in your house per day. Put a tally mark next to each appliance
after you use it, before calculating how many litres that appliance used in
one day, for one person. Calculate and record a grand total amount, of all
the litres of water you used in one day. That is a lot of water, isnt it?
Compare your totals to other students in the class.
So what did you find while using the graphic organiser? Were you surprised
at how much water you use in just one day? Looking back to the beginning
of the lesson, we saw that each day, the world grows by 200,000 people. If
each of those people used as much, if not more water than you do, do you
think there will be more or less people affected by water scarcity? Think
about how many people are in your house and you were recording all of
their water usage. All those litres in just one day, per family. What could be
some ways to reduce the amount of water you use around the house? Write
a possible answer on the strips of paper and place them around the mind
map.

How can we assist those in need of water? Some of you will be asked to
find a foundation that we can sponsor, for as country who has water
scarcity.*Gather a team of experts to find The Water Project. How can we
raise money for this foundation? Because you are the senior leaders of the
school, you could organise a whole-school free-dress day with a gold coin
donation to The Water Project campaign. This will assist communities in
Africa to have a reliable water supply instead of walking long distances to
find it ad carrying it back. Watch this video to see what The Water Project
does and how we could help. Now you can really see how population and
the climate affects the amount of water supply for people to use and
consume and cause water scarcity.
I will organise a Skype session with organisers of this campaign so we can
see exactly who we are helping.
Now you are going to create posters from these possible answers. You can
work in pairs to create the posters. Use lots of images and include facts you
discovered from your graphic organiser. I will laminate them for you and
you can put them in other classrooms around the school.

into their
graphic
organiser?
Mind map
answers
Behavioura
l feedback
from the
students
Verbal
feedback
from the
students
Participatio
n within
the lesson
The
answers
students
provide in
relation to
various
questions
asked
Anecdotal
notes
Observatio
ns

5. Suggest students to organise

whole-school free-dress day
gold coin donation to The
Water Project
6. Watch The Water Project
YouTube clip
7. Explain the expectations and
requirements of the task
8. Students create the posters in
pairs
9. Remind them to use specific
language/terminology/data
10. Laminate and display posters
around the school in other
classroom or halls.
11. Organise a Skype session with
organiser of The Water Project
to show who the money is
going to be helping
12. Complete sixth chapter of
their virtual diary
13. After a few months, set up
another Skype session which
continues to show how much
their donation has helped
others
Reflection Questions and Feedback
What aspects and strategies of teaching this topic would I continue to do? What did I do really well?
How could I improve myself for the next lesson?
Was it the best learning style for all students?
Did I use a variety of activities, strategies and methods, catering foe every students learning styles and preferences?
Was it engaging and interesting for all students?
Did the learners actually learn what I taught them? How do I know this?
Did I teach them in a way that they are able to understand?

Graphic Organiser Investigating, recording and calculating the amount of water used for each appliance by an individual, daily.
Click here for a larger view of the graphic organiser

http://www.worldometers.info/

The Water Project What we do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bySIiPDV6wo&index=5&list=UUWFPw3t1Kzh9vo-20MRyySQ