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Our Global Water Crisis, Explained
Provided by: Our Changing Climate |Published on: April 27, 2021
Videos Grades 6-8, 9-12
Synopsis
- This video is about the global freshwater crisis and its relationship to climate change, explaining its effects on California and the Amazon.
- Students learn about changes in the water cycle, droughts in California and the Amazon rainforest, statistics on water scarcity, and potential solutions to this crisis.
Subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences, Geography
Authors: Our Changing Climate
Region: North America, South and Central America, USA - West, United States, Global, California
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- It offers many solutions including improved irrigation, cover cropping, agroforestry, pollution regulations, and water recycling.
- It is divided into eight timestamped chapters that are linked in the description.
Additional Prerequisites
- The content of the video ends at 8 minutes, 46 seconds and the remaining time is an outro.
- Students should be familiar with certain terms including aquifers, agroforestry, deforestation, groundwater, and transpiration.
Differentiation
- In a science class, students can summarize the positive feedback loops mentioned in the video and brainstorm their own examples.
- Cross-curricular connections can be made with a civics course by having students analyze the most appropriate solutions and create action steps for their local municipality.
- Other resources related to these topics include Why It Matters: Water Scarcity, Poverty: Climate Change & Water Security, and Essentials of Environmental Science: The Water Cycle and Water Pollution.
- A lesson related to this resource is Drought Causes: Climate Change Impacts.
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