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Our service learning program, WE Schools, supports teachers’ efforts to help students become compassionate leaders and active citizens, empowering them to take action on the issues that matter most to them. Currently partnered with 18,400 schools and groups, and backed by a movement of 5.3 million youth, we are engaging a new generation of service leaders and providing resources for a growing network of educators. Our free and comprehensive library of lesson plans is designed to be adapted to meet the needs of any partner school, regardless of students’ grades, socioeconomic backgrounds, or learning challenges. Skills development through the program also increases academic engagement and improves college and workplace readiness.
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AP® Chemistry Access to Clean Water Teaching Module MADE POSSIBLE BY THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF Jolene McCaw Table of Contents Using This Module .7 Teaching Module: Access to Clean Water .8 Getting to Know the Topic .12 Planning Your Instruction .13 Alignment to Course Framework .14 WE Service Concepts .16 Teaching Modules PART 1: Investigate and Learn .18 PART 2: Action Plan .36 PART 3: Take Action .50 PART 4: Report and Celebrate .63 Using This Module AP® with WE Service provides a collection of resources to support your planning and implementation of the program. This teaching module, Access to Clean Water, is one of two sample lesson guides for AP® Chemistry. As you read through this module, refer to the AP® with WE Service Program Guide for additional activities that will support your students’ learning throughout the program. Program Guide The AP® with WE Service Program Guide contains a robust collection of service oriented activities and resources that support the WE Learning Framework.
Use these case studies, news articles, and student activities to supplement and strengthen your students’ understanding and application of core service learning skills.org/pdf/program-guide.pdf WE Resources WE offers a library of resources to support you in delivering content on social topics and issues, as well as the tools and the inspiration for your students to take social action, empower others, and transform lives—including their own. Access our resources at WE. An AP® with WE Service Program Manager will support you in planning your instruction with access to the resources that are the right fit for you. Digital Social Issues Sessions will connect your students with a motivational speaker or facilitator to deliver an online workshop on global and local issues and topics.
Speakers and facilitators can also be booked for school-wide speeches and smaller group or class workshops on site. Full-day Youth Summits provide immersive issues education and action planning opportunities for students. Throughout the module, you will also see tables of optional activities and resources you can pull into your instruction. Digital Portfolio Report your students’ performance through the AP® with WE Service digital portfolio.
Step-by-step directions for using the digital portfolio are available on the program website: collegeboard.org/apwe-resources. How-To Videos Also available on the program website are how-to videos that explain what AP® with WE Service is all about, as well as the steps you need to take to get it going in your class: collegeboard.org/apwe-videos. 6 CLEAN WATER MODULE FOR AP® CHEMISTRY AP® WITH WE SERVICE Module Sections THE PLAN SECTION contains information to help you decide how and when you will fit PLAN this module into your AP® curriculum. PART 1: INVESTIGATE AND LEARN defines and explores the module topic at local TEACH: PART 1 and global levels, and within the context of your AP® course curriculum.
This will be the majority of your required in-class instruction hours and it is where your students will start to make connections between your AP® course content and the module topic. TEACH: PART 2 PART 2: ACTION PLAN guides students as they form teams and begin developing their plan for achieving one local and one global action. TEACH: PART 3 PART 3: TAKE ACTION is where students put their plans into action. As they work, they should keep track of what they do and collect artifacts that capture their efforts.
During this part, you may need to guide students as they encounter obstacles or help them maintain their motivation. TEACH: PART 4 PART 4: REPORT AND CELEBRATE describes how students can showcase their projects and share their accomplishments. Presentations and celebrations may be in your class or in the community. AP® WITH WE SERVICE CLEAN WATER MODULE FOR AP® CHEMISTRY 7 Teaching Module Access to Clean Water “Safe water and adequate sanitation underpin poverty reduction, economic growth, and healthy ecosystems.
They contribute to social well-being, inclusive growth, and sustainable livelihoods.” – SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTÓNIO GUTERRES AP® WITH WE SERVICE CLEAN WATER MODULE FOR AP® CHEMISTRY 9 Geting to Know the Topic Access to Clean Water: Globally Clean water isn’t a luxury, it’s a basic human right, and it’s the fastest way to change a life. However, more than 840 million people around the world live without access to safe water and sanitation. In 2015, the UN acknowledged the human right to clean water with Sustainable Development Goal 6—aimed at ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all—calling upon all countries to support this goal. Without access to clean water, girls and women waste hours a day fetching water from unsafe, distant sources instead of going to school or earning a livelihood.
Families lack access to healthy food sources because their farms fail from droughts. And communities are trapped in the cycle of chronic illness from drinking and using contaminated water. When we tackle the water crisis, we’re also tackling the barriers to education, health care, nutritious food, and opportunity. Fast facts Every year, students miss 443 million school days because of water-related illnesses.
Women and girls around the world spend over 200 million hours every day collecting water. 40% of the world’s population are affected by water scarcity. Taking Action Globally How can students take action at school and in their community to improve global access to clean water? Here are some ideas to get them started: Host a fundraiser and raise money to help build improved water systems and provide clean water education and water projects. Carry out an awareness-raising campaign to educate others about the water crisis.
Contact government leaders to push efforts for improving access to clean water in developing communities. Another option is to support and fundraise for the WE Villages program. Students can support this program by visiting WE.org/we-schools/program/campaigns to get ideas and resources for taking action on global water issues. More than 840 million people around the world cannot access safe drinking water.
10 CLEAN WATER MODULE FOR AP® CHEMISTRY AP® WITH WE SERVICE Getting to Know the Topic PLAN Access to Clean Water: Locally Water scarcity and water sustainability issues are indeed a global concern, but they also affect us locally., water sources are slowly disappearing. There are many factors that contribute to the growing scarcity of our water sources, such as climate change and growing populations. Low rainfall also means that aboveground lakes are falling to low levels and even drying up. Almost half of the country’s water basins that supply water to communities are being affected, including the ones that cover the central and southern Great Plains, the Southwest, central Rocky Mountain states and parts of California, the South, and the Midwest.
One example is Lake Mead in Nevada, which supplies 90 percent of Las Vegas’s drinking water. It is expected to dry up by 2021. Once depleted, these water sources cannot be replenished. Fast facts Irrigation for farming uses more than 75% of water in the U.
By 2071, 96 out of the 204 water basins supplying most of the U. with fresh water could fail to meet monthly demand. According to the U. Environmental Protection Agency, as much as 50% of the water we use outside is wasted due to inefficient watering methods.
Taking Action Locally Within their local or national community, students can: Work with local governments and organizations to learn the reasons for rising water costs and how to make clean water accessible to all. Raise funds that support organizations in improving access to clean water. Raise awareness through workshops or campaigns to educate others on reducing wasteful water usage. With both their global and local actions, encourage students to be creative with the ideas they develop through their action plans.
21 million Americans are getting water from systems that violate health standards. AP® WITH WE SERVICE CLEAN WATER MODULE FOR AP® CHEMISTRY 11 Taking Action Global and Local Service Projects WE Villages Clean water also ensures women and men can earn a For more than two decades, WE Villages has been sustainable livelihood. From staying healthy to reducing engineering an international development model to the time wasted walking for water, parents can spend end poverty. We more time on their businesses to invest in their family’s partner with developing communities around the world future.
Every development pillar of WE Villages ties back and collaborate on projects and programs that equip to water. But how can we make sure that communities are families with the tools they need to break the cycle of gaining reliable access to the clean water they need? poverty through our five Pillars of Impact: Education, Water, Health, Food, and Opportunity. These pillars Global and Local Service Projects address the five primary causes of poverty with As students develop their service projects with one holistic and sustainable solutions that work in tandem local and one global action in their plan (some projects to transform communities. can be local and global), they will look to local and global organizations and initiatives for their research Why Water? and even as potential beneficiaries for their service Clean water is the fastest way to transform a life.