People and Water-Action Project
For our Water class at the GCE Lab School, we learned about water, water usage and the ways people use water for different household uses, like cooking, cleaning, drinking, and hygiene. We also talked about access to water and how not everyone has it easily available to them. To build empathy for people with limited access to water, we were assigned to find a way to carry water from the river to the school. We went to the river and filled buckets, coolers, and bottles of river water, and carried it to our school. This helped build empathy because some people have to walk miles to find water; they can't just turn on the tap for drinking water, and we mimicked that experience for our class. The next thing we did was study our own water usage for an Action Project, a poster about water and our personal water usage, along with the average U.S individual's and a chosen country's (I chose Japan). The purpose of the poster is to raise awareness about water and water usage in a ...