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Intro to the Water Crisis

Compare and Contrast Water Usage

Global 40 minutes
Learning Targets: 
  • I can identify the drivers behind water becoming an endangered resource.
  • I can track my own personal water usage.
  • I can compare and contrast my personal water usage with my partner country.

Procedure:
  1. Spend a week-two weeks tracking water usage throughout your days. Use the water tracking form to help.
  2. Analyze your usage and compare it to others in the United States and around the world. 

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Common Core Standards

MATH: Design simple experiments and collect data. Determine mean, median and range for quantitative data and from data represented in a display. Use these quantities to draw conclusions about the data, compare different data sets, and make predictions.
ENGLISH: Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.