CFR Education: What Is Water Scarcity?

Positives

• The use of interactive visual aides helps students better understand the data associated with this topic.
• This article also touches on the social inequities associated with weather events and water scarcity.

Additional Prerequisites

• Some students may need the terms infrastructure, scarcity, pathogens, irrigation, and others defined prior to beginning the lesson.
• There is a lesson plan and discussion guide linked at the top for teacher use. These resources are for the whole unit and do not have discussion questions or activities for this particular section.
• Students should understand what climate change is, how humans are contributing to climate change, and some of the effects climate change has on the environment.

Differentiation

• Math classes can download some of the data, analyze it, and answer questions about the many graphs provided in the article.
• Students can choose a water scarcity solution to research further and write a speech or report about it to inform others about the solution.
• Geography classes can have students choose a country with a water insecurity level of three or more and then research the effects of water scarcity and the possible solutions for that specific country.
• If there are many students with low reading stamina, strategic grouping can be used to aid with comprehension.