{"id":14078,"date":"2019-08-28T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=14078"},"modified":"2019-08-22T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T15:53:35","slug":"lesson-plans-to-teach-children-about-water-usage-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/28\/lesson-plans-to-teach-children-about-water-usage-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Plans to Teach Children about Water Usage\/Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/water.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14079\" width=\"300\" height=\"324\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vegetarian Resource Group\u2019s Research Director Jeanne\nYacoubou produced lesson plans to teach children about water usage\/waste that\ncan be used in Kindergarten through High School classrooms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of the K-2<sup>nd<\/sup> grade lesson plan is to\nvisualize for young children how much water is used to do everyday tasks and\nhow much water is needed to grow common food items. To graphically illustrate\nfor children how some human activities and how food production causes water\npollution. To instill in children that water is a precious resource and should\nnot be wasted. See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/K-2_lesson_plan_clean_water.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/K-2_lesson_plan_clean_water.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The purposes\nof the 5-8<sup>th<\/sup> grade lesson plan is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To calculate total daily water consumption and average\n     daily water consumption including both direct and indirect uses.<\/li><li>To compare and contrast students&#8217; water use.<\/li><li>To graphically represent data in tables and histograms.<\/li><li>To correlate water use and dietary choices.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/5-8_lesson_plan_water_conservation.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/5-8_lesson_plan_water_conservation.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of the 9-12<sup>th<\/sup> grade lesson plan is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To evaluate surface water quality of samples collected from\na recreational use area and those from areas used for farming or animal-based\nagriculture. Samples will be compared over the period of one day, one week, or\none year, as time and resources permit. Possible parameters to be examined:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>pH<\/li><li>temperature<\/li><li>turbidity <\/li><li>nitrate concentration <\/li><li>phosphate concentration<\/li><li>fecal contamination <\/li><li>antibiotic contamination<\/li><li>dissolved oxygen (DO)<\/li><li>biological oxygen demand (BOD)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/9-12_lesson_plan_water.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/environment\/9-12_lesson_plan_water.php<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To support this type of research, please consider donating to The\nVegetarian Resource Group at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/donate\">www.vrg.org\/donate<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vegetarian Resource Group\u2019s Research Director Jeanne Yacoubou produced lesson plans to teach children about water usage\/waste that can be used in Kindergarten through High School classrooms. The purpose of the K-2nd grade lesson plan is to visualize for young children how much water is used to do everyday tasks and how much water is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14080,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078\/revisions\/14080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}