Which Water Use is Most Important?

Today Bala's grade 1s and 2s had some important decisions to make. We made a list of all the water uses we could think of--it was a long list!  There is only so much water on earth to share with everyone, so how do you decide which use is most important?

We decided there were four categories, human use, animal use, plants (including plants that we eat), and fun uses.  We cut and pasted pictures of these four categories in order from most important to least important.  We then tallied our results and made a bar graph as a class.

 Overall we thought human use was most important, although some people thought it was plants, others thought it was animals, and a few thought fun uses were most important.  We had an interesting discussion about it.   Here are eight samples of our work.

This activity is adapted from The Project Wet Curriculum Guide