2010 Summer Teacher Institute
WATER
An Interdisciplinary Examination of the
World’s Most Essential Resource
University of Chicago
International House, Assembly Hall
1414 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
The following are additional water related readings and resources. Please check back periodically, as new resources will continue to be added leading up to the days of the Institute.
- A Teacher's Guide to Water Related Lesson Plans and Materials
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Day 1 – June 28, 2010
Global Issues Surrounding Water- Water Cycle
- Flow
- Global Overview – When the Rivers Run Dry: Water – The Defining Crisis of the 21st Century
- Agricultural Processes Panel
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Day 2 – June 29, 2010
Fresh Water Politics- From the Water Revolt to Melting Glaciers: What Bolivia Tells us About the Global Forces Threatening our Water
- The Relationship of Water to Health, Gender, Education, and Development
- Hydrological Poverty
- Case Study: Middle East – Desiccation of the Aral Sea: A Water Management Disaster of the Soviet Union
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Dams (Turkey, India, China)
- Teaching kids about dams and water quality
- Upper elementary lesson plan on the environmental impact of Dams
- Background articles on Turkish dam controversy
- Background articles on Turkish dam controversy
- Background article on Narmada dam controversy
- Background articles on environmental impact of Three Gorges dam
- Background articles on environmental impact of Three Gorges dam
- Discovery Education secondary lesson plan on the Three Gorges Dam
- International Rivers -- Tools for Educators: Rivers, Dams, and People
- Dams and Development: The Report of the World Commission on Dams
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Day 3 – June 30, 2010
Social Life of Water-
Water Treatment Innovations in Developing Regions of the World
- See Daniele Lantagne's resources on the Presenter Suggested page.
- Sanitation – India
- Introduction and Impacts of Freshwater Invasive Species
- Liquid Assets
- The Water Future of the Chicago Region and Beyond: Conflict or Collaboration?
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Water Treatment Innovations in Developing Regions of the World
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Additional Teacher Resources
- EPA’s Water Sourcebooks
The Water Sourcebooks contain 324 activities for grades K-12 divided into four sections: K-2, 3-5, 5-8, and 9-12. Each section is divided into five chapters: Introduction to Water, Drinking Water and Wastewater Treatment, Surface Water Resources, Ground Water Resources, and Wetlands and Coastal Waters.
- Project Wet’s Educational Resource Center
Project Wet has published more than 200 hands-on, interactive, science based, fun activities (lesson plans, curricula) on a multitude of water-related topics. At this website, teachers can browse these materials by topic. Topics available include: General Water; Water Conservation; Water Quality (Healthy Water, Healthy People); Watersheds; Wetlands; Sanitation and Hygiene; Native American (Native Waters); Regional Watersheds (Discover a Watershed); Oceans; Natural Disasters; Ground Water; Spanish; and Water History.
- UN Lesson Plan on Water
- World Savvy Water Resource Bank
- Water, Water Everywhere
(Chapter 7 from Thurow, Roger and Scott Kilman. Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. Public Affairs, 2009.) - Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back
(Chapter 12 from Thurow, Roger and Scott Kilman. Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty. Public Affairs, 2009.) - National Geographic, Water: A Special Issue, April 2010
- The Pacific Institute
- International Water Management Institute Tools & Resources
- Water for People; Water for Life. United Nations World Water Development Report
- LakeNet – Protecting and restoring the health of lakes throughout the world
- Rivernet – European Rivers Network
- U.S. Water News – 1995-2009 Water Supply Archives
- Water Footprint Network – Relationship between consumption and water use
- The Story of Bottled Water
- Water Justice – Resource Center on Alternatives to Privatisation
- Water: Our Rivers, Lakes & Wetlands... – WWF/a>
- 2010 America’s Most Endangered Rivers
- Wetlands International (Videos and other Resources)
- What is Green Infrastructure?
- River Systems – USGS
- Stockholm International Water Institute - International Water Week
- Asian Carp Game
- MetroQuest Game – Invent 2040
- Yellow River
- Mekong River
- Libya’s Great Manmade River Authority
- Mesopotamian Marshes
Websites on Rivers:
- EPA’s Water Sourcebooks
For more information, please contact Jamie Bender at (773) 834-3852 or jbender@uchicago.edu