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• How do you or your parents wash your dishes or cook your food? Specific Expectations: B1.3
identify and describe some of
• How do you wash your clothes?
the main patterns in population
distribution and land use in
Connections to Land:
two or more municipal regions
Read the “Connections to First Nations, Métis and Inuit People and
in Ontario, using mapping and
Perspectives” section from Water the Gift of Life: Investigating globe skills
Environmental Impacts on the Edugains website; link on weblinks list.
B2.1 formulate questions to
Important terms to know: guide investigations into some
of the short- and/or long-term
• Turtle Island
effects on the environment of
• contamination different types of land and/or
resource use in two or more
• boil water advisory
municipal regions of Ontario
• water treatment plant
B2.2 gather and organize a
• sewage
variety of data and information
• wastewater on the environmental effects of
different land and/or resource
• wild rice
use and measures taken to
• reserve reduce the negative impact of
that use
Physical (Reveal) Action, Hands On
B2.3 analyze and construct print
Discussion Scenario: Have students imagine they live in a community and digital maps, including
thematic maps, as part of
that doesn’t have access to clean drinking water, despite living
their investigations into the
very close to a lake and other communities who do have access to
environmental impact of land
clean water.
and/or resource use in different
municipal regions
Small-Group Discussion: Have students work in groups of 2-3 (one
student should act as scribe) to come up with questions they have and B2.4 interpret and analyze
possible solutions to the discussion scenario. information and data relevant
to their investigations, using a
Possible questions students may have: variety of tools
• Will I get sick?
B2.5 evaluate evidence and
• Why don’t we have water when our neighbours do? draw conclusions about some
of the short- and long-term
• Can’t the government give us the water?
effects on the environment of
• How did the water become contaminated? different types of land use in
municipal regions of Ontario
Possible Solutions:
and about key measures to
• Move to another community reduce the negative impact of
that use
• Sell our house and move away
Lesson Extension: B2.6
• Build a water treatment plant
communicate the results
• Ask neighbours to share water with us of their inquiries, using
• Put a pipe in the lake to get clean water appropriate vocabulary
B3.6 compare aspects
Whole-Group Discussion: Allow time for students to discuss these
of land in two or more
questions and solutions with their peers.
municipalities in Ontario

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