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Lesson plan: Consequences of unclean
water
From the Tsunami
in Asia online resource
Learning objectives
Going short of water has many consequences in people’s
lives.
These kinds of consequences would apply to anyone, no matter where
they live.
You need:
Copies or projected displays of the framework
used for tracking consequences; a flip chart; large sheets of paper
for group diagrams.
What to do:
- Ask the children to imagine that when they go home
tonight they find that the water supply has been contaminated.
Ask, How would being without water affect you and those around
you?
- Scribe some of their initial suggestions. Are any
of their suggestions linked? Does one thing sometimes lead to
another?
- Show the sample diagram for tracking consequences.
Explain how it shows that one thing leads to another, which leads
to still more problems.
- As a class, work through one set of likely consequences
on a flip chart (retain for future reference).
- In groups, ask the children to have a go at tracking
consequences in a similar way to the sample diagram. If time is
short, advise them that it may be best to track one consequence
as far as they can.
- Get feedback from the groups on the examples they
have tracked. Are there similar lines of thought? Do some groups
break into new ideas for consequences?
- Can the children begin to understand the enormity
of having insufficient reliable water in or near home? Can they
also see that the consequences would apply to anyone in that situation,
wherever they live in the world?
> Click
here for the sample framework for tracking consequences.
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