Water in the Environment

Title: The Young Environmentalists Reporters

Goal: The learners should be able to demonstrate understanding of the different sources of water suitable for human consumption and realize the importance of water in our daily life.

Covered Competencies:

Explain the use of water from different sources in the content of daily activities.
Infer the importance of water in daily activities.
Describe the importance of water cycle.

Mechanics:

As a part of the society, the students will be given a task to report the situation of the community particularly in Barangay Pinagsama wherein many of the people there are facing diseases such as dehydration, diarrhea and dengue.
They will find the different sources of water used in the community and will investigate the causes and effects of those diseases to the people living there by conducting an interview.
After investigating, they will collect the information that they’ve gathered and will present a short video to the class to promote awareness about the importance of water in our daily lives.
The video should be only for 3 to 5 minutes. You can group yourselves into 5 or 6 members.
The students are given 1 week to prepare the video presentation.

Task: (for the students)

As a part of the society, you are given a task to become a reporter. You need to report the situation of the community particularly in Barangay Pinagsama wherein many of the people there are facing diseases such as dehydration, diarrhea, dengue and other water-related diseases. You need to find the different sources of water used in the community and the causes and effects of those diseases by conducting an interview.

After investigating, you will collect all the information that you have gathered and present a short video to the class that will promote awareness about the importance of water in our daily lives. The video should be only for 3 to 5 minutes. You can group yourselves into 5 or 6 members. You are given 1 week to prepare the video presentation.

Rubric for the Video Presentation: