A Parched Nation: Drought, National Disasters, and Contamination

In this webinar teachers will:

• Review information concerning the national safe water crisis.
• Relate the concepts of scarcity, allocation of limited resources, opportunity cost, and decision-making to the topic of water scarcity.
• Learn how climate change will likely exacerbate a national water crisis.
• Consider the cross curricular possibilities of the topic as related to the social sciences and STEM lessons.
• Discuss class and wealth differences in relation to clean water accessibility.
• Examine the children’s books “We Are the Water Protectors” by Carole Lindstrom and “When the World Runs Dry: Earth’s Water Crisis” by Nancy Castaldo.