Lesson 4 - Unit 2 - Conserving water

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 2

Unit 2 - Water everywhere

Today's Lesson 

To do:

- Saving water at home

- Read together

- Discussion questions

- Note 

- Homework

Goals: 

- Learn about ways to conserve water

- Know causes of drought in The Netherlands.

-Learn what a water footprint is. 

In what ways could you save water at home?

Let's read pag 12. Unit 2. lesson 3: Conserving water

Why is this a good example of conserving water?
because....

Let's do the questions

Situation in The Netherlands

Why are they only showing

 spring/summer?

Is this graph about physical or economic water scarcity?

1. physical
2. economic

The Netherlands

Notes

The Netherlands has drought issues during:

• spring/summer

Main causes for this are both human and physical:

• human factor -> people use too much water (pool, watering plants, personal use)
• physical factor-> not enough rainfall, climate change

Water voetafdruk

Different scales to look at water problems:

Global

National

Regional

Local

Personal!

Water footprint

Homework

1. Do the waterfootprint check online:

https://www.watercalculator.org/wfc2/q/household/ -> share 5 interesting results in your notebook.

2. Do:  Make a vlog of max. one minute where you show 5 ways your family could save water at home. Share vlog-> PADLET (part of notebook evaluation)

Homework Siemens

1. Do the waterfootprint check online:

https://www.watercalculator.org/wfc2/q/household/ -> share 5 interesting results in your notebook.

2. Do:  Make a picture of something you could change or replace at your house. Describe in the text why you could change this at your house, what would be improved.

Add your name to it so I know you have done it!

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