Gr.+7-+8+H2O+Global+Responsibilities

**Group Members:** Fred Clarke-Louie, John Csuka and Sarah Cook


 * Subject:** Language and Science


 * Grade:** 7 and 8


 * Key Learning:**

The United Nations considers access to clean drinking water to be a fundamental human right.Yet this is not reality for more than one billion people worldwide. This increasing problematic situation in the world today and facing the world tomorrow is the need for available safe drinking water to all global citizens. The complexity of the situation involves the acceptance or nonacceptance of responsibility.

As a water rich country, do we have a global responsibility to provide efficient technology to provide clean drinking water to water poor countries?
 * Frame Critical Challenge:**

(please write ideas for any of the Challenges below, that way, we'll be ready to hit the ground running at our next session!)
 * Rough Notes:**

(Critique the Piece, Judge the Better or Best, Rework the Piece, Decode the Puzzle, Design to Specs, Perform to Specs Judge the better or the best
 * Type of Critical Challenge:**

Develope a persuasive argument for or against the global responsibility to provide efficient technology to water poor countries in a magazine article.
 * Culminating ideas/type of challenge to show learning:**

- money - available to everyone - suitable for area resources - sustainability - impact on citizens (poor/rich country)
 * Criteria for Judgment**:efficient

- global responsibilty - water purification - water situations in different countries - social situations in differenet countries - economic situation in different countries
 * Background Knowledge required**:

Justify Bias Evaluation Empathy
 * Critical Thinking Vocabulary**:

Somebody/wanted/but/so 5 W's
 * Thinking Strategies:**

open-minded persistence/perseverance
 * Habits of mind** (one or two to focus onType in the content of your page here.