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 * Lesson # 3 Our Blue World - Role of Water [[image:waterdrop width="320" height="318" align="right"]] **

**Description of lesson**: With over 70% of our maps covered by water, this lesson will introduce water's relationship with the land and lifeforms found on Earth. How does water define an area? How do people and animals interact with water? What are the major waterways that make up this world? Students will engage in an interactive overview of water's importance during class and begin to think deeply about their personal relationship with water. In Class Assignment:  Students will work in groups or pairs for a web "scavenger hunt" introducing the bodies of water found on our maps. Using the Blue Map Hunt document, explore water's influence on maps, animals and humans through the links provided. Make sure to follow the red arrows and answer the questions as you follow along. Homework Assignment: Create an awareness poster about water. Get people thinking about why water is important, who needs it or what would happen without it? Include three facts you have learned from today's lesson. Make sure your poster grabs the reader's attention by creating a clever title or slogan, bright colors and any pictures you would like to add. Resources/materials needed: Internet, computer,  , construction paper, markers and any additional craft materials (i.e. glue, stickers, glitter). Technology reflection: This web based CyberHunt activity is great introduction to online navigation and research for students. Students will learn how to use online resources to answer key comprehension questions. Additionally, this activity can guide students to several different mediums of information (i.e. videos, lectures, pictures, articles), offering different opportunities for students to connect and engage with the material versus just reading text in a book or listening to a lecture. The CyberHunt grabs students' attention and literally encourages them to continue learning by guiding them to new and exciting information through each link. Evaluation: My concern with this lesson is access to resources/computers. Ideally this would be a great activity to be done in pairs. Students could work intimately with the CyberHunt and a partner to come up with answers to the questions. If computers are limited I will guide the class in the activity and let students help navigate the links to each site. Additionally, I could split the class into teams and have them create webs of important facts or connections as we traveled through the CyberHunt. After each link students could complete the answers to the questions and add their personal connections to their webs.