Why clean water is important?

A WebQuery for 6th Grade

Ofelia Mendoza

mendozao@cwu.edu

water cycle

Introduction

Have you ever thought about were your drinking water comes from? How does water recycle it's self? And how do we recycle water in treatment plants? Did you know that only about 3% of the water available is good for us to use. There are many pollutions like fertilizers that contaminate our drinking water and affect our health. It is important to have clean water to maintain a good health. Without water their is no live. Where does your drinking water really comes from? What would happen if that water gets contaminated? There are water treatment plants that clean the water before and after it gets to your house. So how clean is your water?

Task

For this assignment, you will investigate where your drinking water comes form and what the water treatments steps are. Then you will have the option of choosing one pollution, like fertilizers, and investigating how that pollution affects the environment. The main caused I want you to choose from are sewage, fertilizers, nitrates and phosphates. You could also investigate are arsenic, contaminated sediment, disinfection by products, dredged material, lead, mercury, and microbial pathogens.

You have the option of creating:

Poster
Power point
Flyer
Paper

The Process

For this assingment you way want to think about some of the following:

What are you going to do?. A poster, Flyer, or power point.
What element are you going to investigate?
What data are you going to use to complete the assignment?
How are you going to present that information?

You might want to think of some of the following question when you are doing this assignment. You don't have to answer all the questions instead use them as a guide for creating your project.

What sort of answer does the task require?
Can the task be broken down into a few smaller tasks?
Where should you start?
What kinds of information will you need?
Where can you find it?
How can the info you find be organized or displayed to make it useful?
Will a graph, concept map, or picture help?
What patterns can you detect in the information you have collected? Any similarities or differences that are important?
Is something missing? Certain perspectives?
What will you need to create on your own to complete the task?
Do you have enough information to complete the task?
If not, what else is needed?
Once you have all of the info you need, what is the best way to use it and complete the task?
Have you checked the rubric and task to make sure that you have completed all aspects of the task?

Resources

I have made a list of links that will help you get the information you need. You can look at as many you want or need. These sites have information that will help you crate your project. They are in no specific order.

http://www.edwardsaquifer.net/treatme.html This page has information on water recycling process. It tells you what steps the water goes through before it goes to your house and after it leaves. The water treatment.
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/wqhome.html In this site you will find information about pollution and water quality.
http://www.epa.gov/students/water.htm This site contains information about recycling. Water facts, rain water, water treatment process, and sewage information.
http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/waterpollution.htm This page has information about the causes of pollution, water quality, global water pollution, ground water, water treatment, and information on different kinds of pollutions.
http://www.epa.gov/ebtpages/watewaterpollution.html This site provides information about causes of pollution, different pollutants, environmental effects, water treatment system, drinking water system, .
http://www.epa.gov./ogwdw/dwh/where.html This sight allows you to investigate where your drinking water comes form. You can locate the location of the water based on were you live.

Evaluation

This rubric is for the power point, poster, and brochure.

Making A Brochure : Water Cycle Rubric

Ms. Mendoza

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Knowledge Gained	All students in the group can accurately answer all questions related to facts in the brochure and to technical processes used to create the brochure.	All students in the group can accurately answer most questions related to facts in the brochure and to technical processes used to create the brochure.	Most students in the group can accurately answer most questions related to facts in the brochure and to technical processes used to create the brochure.	Several students in the group appear to have little knowledge about the facts or technical processes used in the brochure.
Writing - Organization	Each section in the brochure has a clear beginning, middle, and end.	Almost all sections of the brochure have a clear beginning, middle and end.	Most sections of the brochure have a clear beginning, middle and end.	Less than half of the sections of the brochure have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Spelling & Proofreading	No spelling errors remain after one person other than the typist reads and corrects the brochure.	No more than 1 spelling error remains after one person other than the typist reads and corrects the brochure.	No more than 3 spelling errors remain after one person other than the typist reads and corrects the brochure.	Several spelling errors in the brochure.
Graphics/Pictures	Graphics go well with the text and there is a good mix of text and graphics.	Graphics go well with the text, but there are so many that they distract from the text.	Graphics go well with the text, but there are too few and the brochure seems "text-heavy".	Graphics do not go with the accompanying text or appear to be randomly chosen.
Writing - Grammar	There are no grammatical mistakes in the brochure.	There are no grammatical mistakes in the brochure after feedback from an adult.	There are 1-2 grammatical mistakes in the brochure even after feedback from an adult.	There are several grammatical mistakes in the brochure even after feedback from an adult.
Attractiveness & Organization	The brochure, power point or poster has exceptionally attractive formatting and well-organized information.	The brochure, power point or poster has attractive formatting and well-organized information.	The brochure, power point or poster has well-organized information.	The brochure's, power point's or poster's formatting and organization of material are confusing to the reader.

Conclusion

Know that you know about water recycling and water sustainability, It is important that you share the information you have learned with your family and friends. You have found out that water is important and we don't have very much of it so use water sparingly and inform other to not contaminate the water. Polluted water affects the environment, animals and our health. Protect our plant by not waisting or polluting water.
Next time you are going to use water think about where it comes from and how important it is.

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