GeograFREE! A geography lesson on water scarcity

This week’s Geogra3 is a little different.  As a thank you for being in my world I thought I would share another popular lesson from the GTB vault this week, so it’s a bit more like GeograFREE!

Below you will find links to all the resources needed to teach: 

Are we facing a global water crisis?

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This lesson considers the various ways we use water everyday and asks students to estimate how many litres of water they use per day. 

The independent task links to a video clip on Youtube from Netflix called “Explained: World’s Water Crisis” and it lasts approximately 18 minutes.  The video explores the cities of Cape Town and Mexico City to see the consequences of water scarcity and references protests in Mexicali.  

To help foster engagement with the video, there is a student worksheet with a series of questions that can be found here.  Alongside this worksheet, is a detailed answer sheet to ensure you have the specific information needed to encourage further discussion and understanding.  This can be found here.

The follow-up activities ask students to create a poster encouraging others to take water scarcity more seriously.  There is a list of criteria that you could reference to ensure it doesn’t just become a colouring exercise and there is also a list of websites to help encourage further research, if applicable.

This is one of many lessons available in the GTB vault.  This screenshot shows a list of what is currently there, with new lesson resources linked to documentaries added every month.  Those highlighted are the ones just recently added.

 Here’s the link if you’d like to find out more about the GTB vault and how it can help you save a huge amount of time and stress.  I’ve also just added a brand new full unit of work for KS3, an introduction to population change.  It includes classroom-ready powerpoints, plus easy marking homework tasks, an end of unit assessment and criteria plus a learning journey (see below).  All designed to make your life a lot easier!

PS - I love nothing more than supporting Geography teachers as we are a pretty awesome bunch.  So why not come and join us in the Geography Teacher Box vault and let me help you take a load off your plate!

The GTB Vault - the membership for Geography teachers! Inside you’ll find a library of worksheets and answers linked to documentaries, full units of work for KS3 and a brand new community hub so you can share ideas with other geography teachers.