Critical Challenge Question: How successful are the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in ensuring basic human needs are being met within Canada and globally?
Sustainable Development Goal 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
*Ensure availability of safe and affordable drinking water
*Ensure access to adequate sanitation (safe sewage and disposal)
*Reduce contamination (pollution, dumping of hazardous waste) of water sources *Create sustainable management of water and sanitation
Guiding Questions:
1.) How is access to clean water a poverty issue? Locally, Nationally? Internationally? 2.) What are the biggest challenges to water quality and quantity?
3.) What are the biggest threats to our world's water sources?
4.) How is access, or lack of access, to water and sanitation a gendered issue?
Task One: KWL - Know, Wonder, Learn
Before you begin the unit fill in the KWL Chart:
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KNOW - Document what you already know about this topic or the connections you can make to the topic.
What prior knowledge do you have about the topic of clean water and sanitation? Locally? Nationally? Globally?
Brainstorm:
*Words, terms and phrases
*Examples
*Connections
WONDER - What do you want to learn about the topic of clean water and sanitation by the end of this project?
*What component of clean water and sanitation are you interested in learning more about?
*What questions do you have about this topic?
Here are some videos and articles to get you thinking . . .
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Aljazeera - Canda's First Nations Face Systemic Water Crisis
New York Times - A Quarter of Humanity Faces Looming Water Crisis
Task TWO: The Project...
Narrow the topic
You will need to narrow the big topic to a specific area of interest. I have made suggestions on each page or you can choose your own.
Some ideas for narrowing the topic:
*Access to safe drinking water
*Sewage treatment
*Contamination of water sources - water pollution - industry, inadequate sewage treatment, source pollution
*Water shortages and scarcity
*Water privatization (Nestle)
*First Nations water crisis Canada
*Your own idea (you need to run your idea by Mr. Oliveira)
Research
Part One: Asking Questions - building your curiosity?
What questions do you have about your topic?
Come up with at least 5 questions that you would like to have answered about your chosen topic. (Remember to think about the 5 Ws (What, Where, When, Who and Why) + How.
Part Two: Information gathering - learn as much information as you can about your topic.
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Required Information to be included:
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How to access school databases
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Create the Infographic...
*What is an Infographic?
*A visual representation of knowledge and information.
*Present information clearly and concisely
Choose your Infographic tool
*Adobe Spark
*Canva
*Piktochart
Once you have gathered information on your topic, you will need to design your Infographic.
Consider these questions:
*Which information, facts and data are essential to include? Which aren't? *What colours and layout works best in sharing the information?
*What graphs and graphics best convey the information and data to the viewer? *What is the order, or flow, of information?
The final Infographic should be informative, simple, and engaging for the viewer.
Infographic Assignment:
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Planning Your Infographic:
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Infographic Rubric:
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