1. Clean Water PSA
2. Water is Life
2.1. essential questions
2.1.1. how does water effect your everyday life?
2.1.1.1. how do you use water?
2.1.1.1.1. showers
2.1.1.1.2. drinking
2.1.1.1.3. cleaning
2.1.1.1.4. eating/cooking
2.1.1.2. how would you use a finite amount of water?
2.1.1.2.1. what would take priority?
2.1.2. How does water effect communities?
2.1.2.1. who is responsible for providing water?
2.1.2.1.1. how is water accessed?
2.1.3. What is the value of water?
2.1.3.1. what good is money without clean water?
2.1.4. How accessible is water?
2.1.4.1. how do you access water?
2.2. Key concepts
2.2.1. community
2.2.2. collaboration
2.3. Activity (SEA)
2.3.1. how can we be water protectors?
2.3.1.1. why isn't everyone concerned with protecting and conserving clean water?
2.3.2. creating ceramic vessels that irrigate gardens
2.3.2.1. slowly leach water
2.3.2.1.1. gradually water the soil
2.3.2.2. Creating Ollas
2.3.2.2.1. Jorge Quintana Makes an Olla
2.4. Artist
2.4.1. standing rock
2.4.2. water protectors
2.4.3. activists
2.4.3.1. Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
3. Water Accessibility
3.1. Key Concepts
3.1.1. Transpedagogy
3.1.2. Collaboration
3.1.3. Conversation
3.2. Essential Questions
3.2.1. How is freshwater redistributed?
3.2.2. What contaminates freshwater and how can it be remedied?
3.2.2.1. Why doesn't everyone have access to clean drinking water?
3.2.2.1.1. Who has access to clean drinking water? Why?
3.2.2.2. How much does it cost to make clean water accessible?
3.2.3. Who is responsible for keeping reservoirs and other freshwater sources clean?
3.2.3.1. Department of Environmental Protection
3.3. Community Asset
3.4. Artists
3.4.1. Charity: Water Clean Drinking Water for Developing Countries
3.4.1.1. Artists 4 Water
3.4.1.2. BNE
3.4.2. Waves For Water About Us - Waves For Water
3.5. Activity (SEA)
3.5.1. Investigating who is responsible for making clean water accessible.
3.5.2. To collaborate with Artists 4 Water in order to raise funds to fix piping and infrastructure.
3.6. Rationale/Unit
3.6.1. Water is essential for heath and survival.
3.6.2. Access to clean water should be a basic human right.
3.6.3. Creating artwork inspired by the concept of water.
3.6.3.1. To raise awareness of water contamination within the school.
4. Water Scarcity
4.1. Essential Question
4.1.1. If the earth is 71% water, then why should we (in America) care about water scarcity?
4.2. Rationale
4.2.1. Creating a visual representation of the amount of water on earth compared to the amount of potable water on earth might cause people to consider the subject of water scarcity in more realistic terms.
4.2.1.1. https://water.usgs.gov/edu/pictures/full-size/global-water-volume-fresh-large.jpg
4.3. Key Concepts
4.3.1. Transpedagogy, antagonism, collaboration, community, participation, conversation
4.4. Activity (SEA)
4.4.1. Displaying a visual model in a public place that shows 1. The earth. 2. The amount of water on earth. 3. The amount of fresh-water on Earth. 4. The amount of fresh water that is accessible in the form of rivers and streams, on which most life depends. Ask the community/volunteers to identify what the three spheres (excluding the earth) represent.
4.4.1.1. Various Models:1. Representation as paper mache spheres 2. Representation as everyday objects (balls, etc.) 3. Representation as water bottles.
4.4.2. Possibilities include: Asking people to write on post-it notes and label each representation, Interviewing people and recording responses, Taking surveys, etc.
4.5. Community Asset
4.5.1. Local water department (Montpelier City Public Works)
4.6. Artists
4.6.1. Carolyn Shapiro, Delia Robinson local artists who painted a small mural in city hall depicting where our water comes from. Water & Sewer | Montpelier, VT
4.7. Other Important Information
4.7.1. Of all the water on Earth, 96.5% is in the oceans. Many people (women and children) in Africa and Asia have to walk several miles each day to reach fresh drinking water. In addition to drinking, people need water for bathing, brushing their teeth, laundry, and cooking. By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity.
5. Rationale/Water quality
5.1. community
5.1.1. Who buys bottles of water?
5.1.1.1. Who doesn't?
5.1.1.1.1. Contact the local water authority for a water quality report
5.2. antagonism
5.2.1. Are corporations are making big money from the commodification of water?
5.2.1.1. Perrier started the bottled water trend in the 1970's
5.2.1.1.1. Justification that more people are buying water than soda now
5.2.1.2. People that think their water is contaminated
5.2.1.2.1. Is it more convenient to grab a bottle of water then fill a reusable container?
5.3. conversation
5.3.1. Do all people in the USA have access to clean water?
5.3.1.1. Environmental, economical and societal impact of buying water in plastic bottles
5.3.1.1.1. Only 15% of plastic water bottles get recycled/downcycled
5.4. SEA activity: Water Giveaway
5.4.1. Have a table with commercial bottles of water or an ice cold pitcher of tap water and offer either to the general public.
5.4.1.1. Would they trust a stranger?
5.4.1.1.1. Would they trust the bottled water?
5.5. Artists/Activists
5.5.1. Greenpeace
6. The Cost of Water
6.1. Rationale:
6.2. Essential Questions:
6.2.1. What is the cost of water? Why is water not free? How can the presentation of facts change minds? How can antagonistic methods be used to promote an idea?
6.3. Community Asset
6.3.1. VT Department of Environmental Conservation
6.3.1.1. Clean Water Initiative
6.3.2. EPA
6.3.3. Water is Life
6.4. Activity (SEA)
6.4.1. PSA
6.4.1.1. Poster: hand created or digital
6.4.1.2. Podcast
6.4.1.3. 2 min video
6.4.1.4. Animation
6.4.1.5. T shirt design
6.4.1.6. Postcard
6.5. Artists
6.5.1. JustSeeds Wellspring Prints
6.5.1.1. Numerous artsits
6.6. Resources
6.6.1. Books
6.6.1.1. The Water Princess by Susan Verde
6.6.2. Video
6.6.3. Sites
6.6.3.1. Reservoir Studio
6.6.3.2. VT Dept of Natural Resources
6.6.3.3. EPA
6.6.3.4. One Water
6.6.3.4.1. All the Things
7. Rising Water
7.1. Key Conceots
7.1.1. Water And Climate Change
7.1.1.1. Keywords: TIdes, Floods, High Water Marks, Glaciers
7.2. Essential Questions
7.2.1. How does Climate Change affect water? How do People affect water?
7.2.1.1. Dams
7.2.1.1.1. Displacement
7.2.1.2. Floods
7.2.1.2.1. Natural Disaster
7.2.1.3. Melting Glaciers
7.3. Community Assets
7.3.1. Records and Floods of high water marks from library records, local hydrologists
7.3.1.1. Map displacement of Native Cultures and the Low-Income
7.4. Activity (SEA
7.4.1. Mark the Flood lines in town
7.5. Artists
7.5.1. Mary Miss
7.5.1.1. Boulder Creek - Blue Disks
7.5.2. Maya Lin
7.5.2.1. Confluence
8. The Power of Water
9. Matt Damon Goes On Strike!
9.1. Full Interview With Matt Damon About The Water Crisis – 2010
10. Stephen Carpenter II
11. what is water means to the most threatened county by sever water shortage ?
12. the five countries most threatened by severe water shortages Yemen Libya Western Sahara Djibouti Jordan But in this curriculum am only focusing on one country Jordan
13. Why Jordan has water shortage ?
14. essential question: What are you doing, Steve?
15. Essential Questions
16. Who is the responsible on the shortage water in Jordan ?
16.1. Is the real reason behind the water shortage in Jordan natural reasons or political reasons ?
17. conversation
17.1. Why would people buy water if water is safe to drink?
18. glugbytgovtuyt
19. Rationale / Unit Overview
19.1. key concept
20. Technology for Clean Water
20.1. Essential Questions
20.1.1. How to make salt water potable?
20.1.2. Who and where is there a need for this technology?
20.1.3. How to make rain water from lakes, rivers, puddles etc. drinkable?
20.1.3.1. Through art practices such as ceramics, drawing, photography etc.
20.2. Unit Overview
20.2.1. Discovering a way to make clean drinking water through initially learning where and who is in need of this resource and how collective involvement can make a change.
20.3. Key Concepts
20.3.1. Defining who needs water and taking social action
20.3.2. collectively collaborating in order to make social change
20.3.2.1. Brainstorm a project. Make the project. disperse the project.
20.4. Community Asset
20.4.1. display artwork and artwork in process in a community space (Example would be how Steve made water filters in front of museum)
20.4.2. Volunteer by going through the community and seeing where and who doesn't have potable water. Then finding a way to solve these problems. Such as making a filter for them.
20.5. Activity
20.5.1. For K-6 : Read "Clean Water for Elirose"
20.5.1.1. Ask students to make posters of what they learned from reading several books. These posters will act as a way to inform people of the water crisis throughout the world.
20.5.2. For 6-12 : Read "Every Last Drop" by Michelle Mulder to get ideas on ways to help the community
20.5.2.1. Make water filtration systems through ceramics
20.5.2.2. Make fog catchers
20.5.2.2.1. If materials are not available, design a fog catcher and provide a poster of what it will look like, how it works and who is in need of these.
21. Rational unit overview
22. community asset
23. key concept
23.1. Collaboration
23.1.1. How the water shortage in Jordan can be fixed ?
23.1.1.1. Is it the Jordanian citizen responsibility to fix the water crises or the Jordanian government ?
24. Lead in drinking water in Philadelphia PA
24.1. Key concepts
24.1.1. Clean drinking water should be a human right.
24.1.2. Collaboration
24.1.3. Transpedagogy
24.1.3.1. Blending art practice with educational process
24.2. Essential questions
24.2.1. What areas of the city have more concentrations of lead in drinking water? Why?
24.2.2. How does the issue of lead in drinking water affect renters and homeowners differently?
24.3. Community Asset
24.3.1. EPA
24.3.2. Philly Unleaded Project: A citizen-led project to independently test about a hundred houses in low income neighborhoods across Philadelphia
24.4. Activity (SEA)
24.5. Artists
24.5.1. Michael Dykehouse,
24.5.2. ACT collective
24.5.3. Water Bar Welcome
24.5.4. Steve Carpenter
24.5.5. See some of the art from Buckham Gallery's Flint water crisis exhibit
24.6. Additional Resources
24.6.1. http://planphilly.com/uploads/media_items/how-to-check-if-you-have-lead-in-your-water-pipes.350.449.s.png
24.6.2. Every Last Drop by Michelle Mulder