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GLOBAL WATER SUPPLY ELEmEnTARY CURRICULUmTABLE Of COnTEnTS

1.0 National Curriculum Alignment: Elementary

2.0 “Water is Life” Global Water Awareness Mini-Unit (Grades 3-5)

2.1 Supporting Materials: “A Drop in the Bucket” Lesson Plan

2.2 Supporting Materials: Global Water Awareness Fact Sheet

2.3 Supporting Activity: Global Water Awareness “Vocabulary Saari Search”

2.4 Supporting Materials: Global Water Awareness “Vocabulary Saari Search” Key

2.5 Supporting Activity: “Water is Lie” Website Search Activity

2.6 Supporting Activity: “Hot Water” Game Instructions

3.0 Water is Life, Water is Poetry Seminar (Grades 3-5)

3.1 Supporting Materials: Water is Lie, Water is Poetry Seminar Instructions

3.2 Supporting Materials: Water-Inspired Poem Selections

4.0 “Water Has Many Uses” Mini-Unit (Grades K-5)4.1 Supporting Activity: “Water Has Many Uses” Family Questionnaire

4.2 Supporting Activity: “Water Has Many Uses” Collage Instructions

4.3 Supporting Activity: “Water Has Many Uses” Tracing Worksheet

4.4 Supporting Activity: A Drop o Water Writing Activity


5.0 “World-Water Hero!” Lesson Plan (Grades K-5)


6.0 “Traveling for Water” Mini-Unit (Grades 3-5)


6.2 Supporting Materials: Global Water Awareness “World Tour”

6.3 Supporting Activity: Global Water Awareness Chart

6.4 Supporting Activity: “Traveling or Water” Quick Math Questions

6.5 Supporting Activity: “Traveling or Water” Maze




nATIOnAL CURRICULUm STAndARdS ALIGnmEnT

:: Elementary

:: http://www.education-world.com/national/standards

English/Language Arts

NL-ENG.K-12.1

Reading or Perspective: Students read a wide range o print and non-print documents to build an

understanding o texts, o themselves, and o the cultures o the United States and the world.

NL-ENG.K-12.3

Evaluation Strategies: Students apply a wide range o strategies to comprehend, interpret, evalu-

ate, and appreciate texts.

NL-ENG.K-12.4

Communication Skills: Students adjust their use o spoken, written, and visual language to com-

municate eectively with a variety o audiences and or dierent purposes.

NL-ENG.K-12.5

Communication Strategies: Students employ a wide range o strategies as they write and use

dierent writing process elements appropriately to communicate with dierent audiences or a

variety o purposes.

NL-ENG.K-12.6

Applying Knowledge: Students apply knowledge o language structure, language conventions,

media techniques, fgurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and non-

print texts.

NL-ENG.K-12.7

Evaluating Data: Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas and

questions, and by posing problems. They gather, evaluate, and synthesize data rom a variety o

sources to communicate their discoveries in ways that suit their purpose and audience.

NL-ENG.K-12.8

Developing Research Skills: Students use a variety o technological and inormation resources to

gather and synthesize inormation and to create and communicate knowledge.

NL-ENG.K-12.11Participating in Society

NL-ENG.K-12.12

Applying Language Skills: Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their

own purposes (e.g., or learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange o inormation).

1.0 nATIOnAL CURRICULUm ALIGnmEnT: ELEmEnTARY




nATIOnAL CURRICULUm STAndARdS ALIGnmEnT

Social Sciences

Geography

NSS-G.K-12.1The World in Spatial Terms: Understand how to use maps and other geographic representations,

tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report inormation rom a spatial perspective.

NSS-G.K-12.2

Places and Regions: Understand the physical and human characteristics o places/ Understand

that people create regions to interpret Earth’s complexity/ Understand how culture and experi-

ence inuence people’s perceptions o places and regions.

NSS-G.K-12.3

Physical Systems: Understand the physical processes that shape the patterns o Earth’s surace/

Understand the characteristics and spatial distribution o ecosystems on Earth’s surace.

NSS-G.K-12.4

Human Systems: Understand the characteristics, distribution, and migration o human popula-

tions on Earth’s surace/ Understand the characteristics, distribution, and complexity o Earth’s

cultural mosaics/ Understand the patterns and networks o economic interdependence on

Earth’s surace/ Understand the processes, patterns, and unctions o human settlement/ Under-

stand how the orces o cooperation and conict among people inuence the division and contro

o Earth’s surace.

NSS-G.K-12.5

Environment and Society: Understand how human actions modiy the physical environment/ Un-

derstand how physical systems aect human systems/ Understand the changes that occur in the

meaning, use, distribution, and importance o resources.

NSS-G.K-12.6

Uses o Geography: Understand how to apply geography to interpret the present and plan or the

uture.

Technology

NT.K-12.1Basic Technology Operations and Concepts: Students demonstrate a sound understanding o the

nature and operation o technology systems/ Students are profcient in the use o technology.

NT.K-12.2

Social, Ethical, and Human Issues: Students understand the ethical, cultural, and societal issues

related to technology/ Students practice responsible use o technology systems, inormation, and

sotware/Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lielong learn-

ing, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity.





NT.K-12.3

Technology Productivity Tools: Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase pro-

ductivity, and promote creativity/ Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing

technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.

NT.K-12.4

Technology Communications Tools: Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and

interact with peers, experts, and other audiences/ Students use a variety o media and ormats to

communicate inormation and ideas eectively to multiple audiences.

NT.K-12.5

Technology Research Tools: Students use technology to locate, evaluate and collect inormation

rom a variety o sources/ Students use technology tools to process data and report results/ Stu-

dents evaluate and select new inormation resources and technological innovations based on the

appropriateness or specifc tasks.

Mathematics

NM-NUM.3-5.1 Understand numbers, ways o representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number

systems: Understand the place-value structure o the base-ten number system and be able to rep

resent and compare whole numbers and decimals; recognize equivalent representations or the

same number and generate them by decomposing and composing numbers; develop understand

ing o ractions as parts o unit wholes, as parts o a collection, as locations on number lines, and

as divisions o whole numbers; use models, benchmarks, and equivalent orms to judge the size o

ractions; recognize and


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