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PERSONAL WATER USE AUDIT
Objectives:
- Estimation of amount of water used in a day
Requirement:
- Notebook to record observations
- Pencil/ Pen
Time required:
- One day for audit and 30-40 minutes for discussion
Background
Water is so much a part of our daily routine, and we often take it for granted! Water is used in various day to day activities in a number of ways including bathing, brushing, cooking, drinking, to name a few. This activity will help students measure and calculate the water used by different family members in a day
Procedure
- Introduce children in the classroom to water and its importance and how we use water. This could be done through an interactive discussion
- This list could be tabulated and a chart maintained (as indicated below).
- The survey could be planned on a holiday, as it would provide students the time to record their observations.
- Total Depending on the age of the children undertaking the survey, they could represent the data collected at home in the form of a pie indicating wither values or percentage water use
| Activity | How much water is used by which family member | Any alternate use the water can be put to if possible to store the same | ||||
| Mother | Father | Brother/Sister | Self | Others | ||
| Cleaning Teeth | ||||||
| Bathing | ||||||
| Drinking | ||||||
| Cooking | ||||||
| Cleaning | ||||||
| Washing | ||||||
| Watering plants | ||||||
| Total | ||||||
WATER IN DIFFERENT SEASONS
Objectives:
- To introduce children to the changing state of water due to change in seasons
- To get children to make a collage of water in different seasons
Requirement:
- Old nature magazines or children activity books
- Scissors, gum and chart papers for creating the collage
Time required:
- 30-40 min for collection of relevant pictures from different magazines and books.
- 1 hr for preparation of a collage (this could be split over 2 classes)
Background
The state of water, the activities that we do with water and the abundance of water varies with different seasons. It would be a useful exercise to get children to understand these changes and how these occur with the change in season by doing an interesting collage with students based on water, largely on the changing uses of water when seen in the context of the seasons.
Procedure
- Introduce children in the classroom to water and its importance and how we use water. This could be done through an interactive discussion
- Slowly lead the discussion towards the states and uses of water in different seasons
- Subsequent to this discussion, provide different books to students from which they would have to search and cut out pictures which also contain uses of water or show the different states of water in different seasons
- These pictures could be sorted out according to the different seasons.
- If it is difficult to find some pictures, some students could be allowed to draw the same
- Once sufficient number of pictures or drawings have been collected, provide students with chart paper onto which these pictures could be stuck to depict a collage with different uses and state of water in different seasons.
Extension and Variation:
Students could also do this on a larger map of India; this might also evolve into a chart of seasonal variation of water across India.
