3.8 Tap Into This
“Tap Into This” is Lesson 3.8 in the Food and Nutrition unit of the Grow Your PALS Program Guide (National FFA Mentoring Program). This one-on-one mentoring lesson teaches students about the importance of water in daily life, where drinking water comes from, and how to conserve water and protect it from contamination, using discussion, a drawing activity, and a scrambled-word assessment.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Have a better understanding of the importance of water in daily life.
- Be able to identify what can be done to conserve water and protect water from being contaminated.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 15 minutes.
- Materials
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- Poster paper
- Crayons and/or markers
- Glass of water
- PALS3.8.ONE.ASSESS.A
- Unit
- Food and Nutrition
- Lesson Type
- One-on-One
- Precepts
- J. Mental Growth — J2. Think creatively
- Key Terms
- Contaminate
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- ESS.03.03.01.aDescribe the world's water supplies and discuss the many uses of water.
- ESS.03.03.02.a.Demonstrate knowledge of hydrogeology by differentiating between groundwater and surface water.
- ESS.03.03.04.bDescribe precautions taken to prevent/reduce contamination of groundwater supplies.