Factors affecting water availability (60 mins group task)

Factors that impact water availability

Group and individual tasks
Learning stations

INCLUDED:
A set of 6 A4 Fact files about factors affecting water availability: Climate, Geology, Over-abstraction, Poverty, Pollution, Limited Infrastructures
An answer sheet
Instructions for group tasks
Group / Learning stations labels

Instructions
GROUP WORK - Identify and describe factors affecting the global availability of water.
Two versions: A
Students are going to work in groups.
Each group will receive one factifiles sheet with a different factor affecting water availability.
Students read about it and fill in the table with the information about the factor they have.
Students go to another group and ask about the information concerning another factor.
Students need to fill in all the gaps in your table.
B
T prepares six learning stations with a set of copies of one type of factfiles sheet.
Students are going to work in six groups
T gives each student an answer sheet
Teacher asks one group to sit at one learning station.
T sets the timer and allows students a certain number time on each task (it depends on the length of your lesson)
Students work on the task and once the time is up students move on to another learning station
After all of the tasks have been done T-Ss check the answers together

• To motivate students T can reward students who have done all of the tasks correct. T may decide that the is considered to have been done only if every member of a group has done a task.