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impact of human activities on
Emotional (Relate) Activating Prior Knowledge,
the long-term sustainability of
Minds On local, national, or international
water systems
Opening Circle
Ask students to sit in a circle. Place a glass of water in the centre of
the circle.
MATERIALS
Prompting Questions: 1. glass of water
• How do you use water? (to drink, to bathe, to cook, to do laundry,
to swim, to clean, to create hydroelectric power, etc.)

• How would your life be different if you didn’t have ready access to
clean water? What are the effects of water scarcity?
• What are the effects of poor water quality/water contamination?

The goal is to highlight the importance of water, but also to highlight
how much most people take their personal access to it for granted.

Physical (Reveal) Action, Hands On
Procedure
1. Build a small model waterway with a dam outside in dirt or inside
with interlocking toy bricks. Pour a normal amount of water, then
too much water into the waterway. Watch the damage done by
CONNECTIONS TO
the flooding. Discuss how this would affect surrounding land and
LANGUAGE
the people who may live there.
water: nibi (nih-bih)
2. Measure your schoolyard. Compare this measurement to the
land: aki (uh-kih)
405 hectares (ha) of land that was flooded in 1834 when the
shallow muddy lake:
Lindsay Grist Mill dam was built. 1 hectare = 10 000 square metres.
scugog (scoo-gog)
3. Read pages 15 and 16 in the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First
wild rice: manoomin
Nation Resource Book as a shared reading lesson. Display a map of (mun-oh-min)
North America and point out these places on the map. Compare
and investigate the connection of North America to the name
MATERIALS
Turtle Island.
1. interlocking toy bricks
4. Research media sources to read about
– How the building of the Grist Mill in Lindsay in 1834 created
flooding in the Trent watershed system, flooding the land on
Scugog Island.
– How the issues of long-term water sustainability on Canadian
First Nations reserves could be affecting the Mississaugas of
Scugog Island First Nation.
5. Students should read with an emphasis on consuming the media
critically. They may use BLM S7.1 Checking for Bias.

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