Why Is Water Important?

How do you use water, every day or for fun? With your classmates, create a book about why water is important to each of you.

• 1.

  Talk with classmates about all the ways people use water every day. On large chart paper, use Crayola® Markers to list ways that water is used where you live, including at home and school, manufacturing, electricity generation, and irrigation.

• 2.

  On construction paper, illustrate one way that water is important to you. Write a sentence describing your picture or label your drawing.

• 3.

  Compile all of the pages to create a class book titled Why Is Water <U>Important?</U> Read the book to each other and younger children in your school. Share your ideas for conserving water.

Benefits

• Students conceptualize and communicate ideas about the many varied and important uses of water.
• Students create original art reflecting their ideas.
• Students write and read orally a sentence describing their illustration.

Adaptations

• Water is all around us. Complete an experiment showing the water cycle. Record your findings with drawings and charts.
• Illustrate the water cycle on a large mural using Color Wave Markers.
• In your community, where does the water come from? Trace it back from your faucets to its source. How does water get into the lake, well, or other reservoir?
• Students with special needs could label their picture or dictate their ideas to someone who can write their words.
• Assessment: Check that both the illustration and sentence describe real-life uses of water. Look for original ideas, details in the illustrations, and matches between the descriptions and drawings.