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The Water Project — Lesson Plans

This free teacher's guide on the global water crisis can be taught whole or broken into standalone lessons across core subjects, with station-based activities, worksheets, and research prompts spanning elementary through high school. It ties naturally into the nonprofit's own well-building projects, giving classes an authentic service-learning outlet if they choose to take it.

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What you will find there

  • A full teacher's guide on the global water crisis, usable whole or broken into standalone lessons
  • "Water, Water Anywhere," a station-based activity demonstrating water scarcity
  • "Dirty Water... So What?" and "Handwashing Hang-Ups," lessons on health, poverty, and sanitation
  • Research prompts and resource lists spanning elementary through high school
  • An optional service-learning tie-in to real well-building projects students can fund and track

Our take

This is a turnkey water-crisis unit with a built-in service-learning outlet for classes that want to go further than the lesson itself. The framing is global-crisis and charity-oriented rather than US water-systems content, and downloading the kit asks for a name, school, and email even though there is no payment or account wall.

Pairs well with our materials