Water and Sanitation for All: Bringing the Issue Home

Question	Response
To enhance this resource the following changes would be beneficial:	Take students outside to explore what happens in their community when the toilet is flushed or the when the sink drain empties. This will connect them to the out of doors and deepen their ability to think in interconnected systems. Provide time for students to explore water use/hygiene in a country of choice. This will provide opportunity for them to self-determine their learning and an opportunity to share information/learning with each other. Use a world map an coloured dots to categorize their learning. Consider how you can integrate successful group work into the existing lessons to minimize the amount of teacher directed activity.
To enhance this resource the following changes are strongly recommended:	Make subtle changes to the lessons to provide a Canadian/local perspective. Introduce water and sanitation by looking at how students consume potable water and what the students do to stay clean and healthy. Begin each lesson with an overarching question for students to answer and reflect on at the lesson's end. An example for lesson one might be: How do water availability and natural disasters impact human health? Students must determine the action they want to take. The teacher must guide them through the process to help ensure their success and empowerment.

Principle	Rating	Explanation
Consideration of Alternative Perspectives	Very Good	Supports the ESD perspective that water needs to be clean and freely available to all.
Multiple Dimensions of Problems & Solutions	Very Good	The resource explores economic, environmental, and social dimensions.
Respects Complexity	Good	The lessons identify the poverty/potable water accessibility connection and the potable water/hygiene connection. The lessons introduce worldwide potable water consumption inequities. The lessons do not introduce world water distribution or factors contributing to water pollution.
Acting on Learning	Good	A planning guide contributes to the likelyhood that classes or individuals could take action. A tie-in to the local community and a reason to care are not clearly established.
Values Education	Poor/Not considered	While there is some guided discussion time there are no reflection activities.
Empathy & Respect for Humans	Satisfactory	The provided case studies are opportunities to cultivate empathy and respect. It is up to the teacher to ensure it happens.
Personal Affinity with Earth	Poor/Not considered
Locally-Focused Learning	Poor/Not considered	A significant oversight.
Past, Present & Future	Satisfactory	The lessons concentrate on the present and future.

Pedagogical Approaches

Principle	Rating	Explanation
Open-Ended Instruction	Satisfactory	Structured inquiry with some guided inquiry. Lesson three provides opportunity for open inquiry.
Integrated Learning	Good	Socials, language arts, and health are effectively integrated.
Inquiry Learning	Poor/Not considered	This is not an inquiry based lesson set.
Differentiated Instruction	Satisfactory	This is a language-based lesson set.
Experiential Learning	Satisfactory	case studies are provided for students to read. action experience is encouraged and supported
Cooperative Learning	Poor/Not considered
Assessment & Evaluation	Poor/Not considered	There are no assessment tools included.
Peer Teaching	Satisfactory	In lesson two, students share information from one of two scenarios they have read.
Case Studies	Good
Locus of Control	Poor/Not considered

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