Impact Wastewater Management
Overview:
Students will understand the impact of technology on themselves, the
community and the world. In this lesson Wastewater management is that
technology.
Keywords:
Subject:
Age / Grade Range:
Technology, impact, wastewater management
Computer Applications
8th Grade
Background:
With the rapid change of technology its important that students understand
the impact technology has made and will continue to make on themselves
their community, and the world. Other examples of amazing technologies
would be refrigeration, radio, cell phones, etc.
Common Core and
Idaho Content
Standards:
CCRA.WHST.1
Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive
topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
CCRA.WHST.6
Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to
interact and collaborate with others.
CCRA.WHST.8
Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital
sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source,
and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.
CCRA.R.7
Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse
media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well
as in words.
Goals:
Students will be creating presentations on the impact of waste water
management to themselves, the community and the world.
Essential Questions:
What is the impact of waste water management on you, the community and
the world?
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Objectives:
Materials:
Set up:
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"Students will have practice in creating a presentation and giving a
presentation on their understandings."
"Students will have practice in researching."
"Student will have practice on interpreting statistics."
"Students will understand the impact wastewater management has
had on themselves, the community and the world.
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Computer
Projector/Screen
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8isr9nSDCK4
Prior to this lesson the word technology has been defined by the class. The
definition my class usually comes up with is, "What helps living things make
their everyday lives easier." In addition students have a general knowledge of
how to perform research including using key words, checking for quality
sites, siting their sources, etc. This would be a final unit for me so students
have also had prior practice with creating presentations and presenting.
Time/ Duration:
One class period to present information(45 minutes) and explain activity.
Then one week for students to prepare their presentation(assuming you have
them daily for 45 minutes) and roughly one week for students to present
their presentations (assuming you have about 30 kids and their presentations
are about 5 minutes long).
Introduction
(Engage):
I would have projected on the screen four objects, a toilet, a syringe, a cell
phone, and a refrigerator. Underneath the objects would be a question: "In at
least one complete sentence tell me which item you think has had the greatest
impact on human kind and why? ". As students walk in they would attend to
today's "concept board question" while I take attendance. They would be
typing this in their online journal. After attendance we would have a class
discussion/share out time. All answers are accepted. I would ask, "Does the
toilet fit into our definition of technology?". In a previous class technology
would have been defined as, "What helps living things make their everyday
life easier". The importance to this is that students understand that
technology does not have to be plugged in.
Activity (Explore):
Explanation:
Elaboration:
I would explain that today we are going to look into why wastewater
management (the toilet) is so important. I would show the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8isr9nSDCK4. After the video I would
have students pair up and come up with potential answers to the two
questions presented in the video. " Where would our untreated sewage end
up?" and "What would untreated sewage do to our environment and our
health?" After about 5 minutes I would have groups share out. I would end
the class with an explanation of the activity their going to engage in to
demonstrate their understandings. The explanation would also be displayed
on the projector screen. They will create a 5 slide presentation on the impact
of waste water management. The first slide will be a title slide that includes
their name and an image and title. Second slide will be how waste water
management (WWM) impacts them, which must include three specific items
one being a statistic. Third slide how it impacts their community which must
include three specific items one being a statistic.. Fourth slide how WWM
impacts the world which must include three specific items one being a
statistic. Their fifth slide will be their reference slide. They can use any
application for presentation (Prezi, Haiku Deck, Google Slides, etc. )Over the
next week I would assist students on their research/presentation, assigning
student row leaders for additional assistance based on ability.
During the final week students will give five minute presentations that will be
evaluated by myself and two peers. Students parents and my coworkers will
have been invited for the presentations as well.
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This will be students fourth time giving a presentation in my one semester
class. Students will be reminded that the basic ideas regarding presentations
will be evaluated such as, font size and color, clear images, simple animations,
eye contact, voice projection, etc. In addition having students find statistics
and interpret them is an essential part of this activity and unit.
Evaluation/
Assessment:
I will be using a rubric to evaluate students understandings. The rubric is
attached. Once again two other peers/parents/staff or admin will be
evaluating their presentation with me.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QtAV9cCSk4t0Ls_4zKe5YfZa6geXqe__ImW6xtELk4E/edit
Additional resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8isr9nSDCK4
http://bee.cityofboise.org/watershed/
http://water.org/water-crisis/water-facts/water/
http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/wash_statistics.html
http://thewaterproject.org/health
Family/ Community Connections:
http://bee.cityofboise.org/watershed/
http://www.cityofnampa.us/wastewater