Our Water: Sources and Uses

(EEI, 5.3.d, Water, 5th grade)

By: Michelle Watson

Major Student Learning Goals

● Know how people use and conserve water

● Know how human practices affect its limited supply
● Analyze the consequences of changing the characteristics of
fresh water on the ecosystems and human communities within a
watershed
● Understand interactions between human and natural systems
- Understand how our practices affect the environment
- Understand how the health of the environment affects us
 Content
Development
Previous Knowledge Required

● The Water Cycle

(to know some of
the water sources)
 Phenomena Usage
Waterspout:
- Wind and water
- Intense columnar vortex
- Happens over mass of water and links
to a cumuliform cloud
- Brings the water upward with immense
speed and power.
Frost Flower:
- Buildups of ice particles
around the base of certain
plants and types of wood.
- Temperature outside
plant= below freezing,
temperature within=not
- Water pulled to surface
Personal Background on Content

● Strengths: The Water Cycle, water sources, water uses, effects between human
civilization and nature
● Weaknesses: wastewater treatment, reservoirs, watersheds
● Used Teacher Resources:
- Teacher’s Edition
- Teacher’s Background
- Glossary
● Word Wall Cards
● Additional Resources:
 Favorite Lesson
● Lesson 3: Working with Wastewater
● What Students Do:
- Discuss why we need to clean wastewater
- Observe the Water Cycle and Wastewater Treatment diagrams
- How nature and humans clean water
- Fill out a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the two diagrams
● Student Resources: Student Edition, dictionary
● Teacher Resources: Teacher’s Edition, Visual Aids, Word Wall Cards
● Assessments: Fillable Worksheet (questions & diagram)
Most Significant CC Standards
Most Significant
NGSS Standards

*DCI Has the most