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In this unit, students will become environmental scientists investigating the cleanliness of water in Chicago (as a class) and in other cities (as case studies in their performance task). As researchers, students will be reading informative texts on how humans have developed methods to clean water. As scientists, students will be understanding water as a unique form of matter. This understanding of water as a particularly important natural resource will help students critique humans’ use and abuse of water sources, as well as identify environmental injustice along lines of race and class when it comes to access to clean water.
In this unit, students will become environmental scientists investigating the cleanliness of water in Chicago (as a class) and in other cities (as case studies in their performance task). As researchers, students will be reading informative texts on how humans have developed methods to clean water. As scientists, students will be understanding water as a unique form of matter. This understanding of water as a particularly important natural resource will help students critique humans’ use and abuse of water sources, as well as identify environmental injustice along lines of race and class when it comes to access to clean water.