Nadine Rossel

Grade:
Date:

6/7
December 2015

Topic
Allotted Time

Aboriginal water access

46 minutes

1. Rationale: Students have been studying various topics on water and the global and
local issues surrounding it. This will continue with this lesson when students look at
the first nation community of Neskantaga in Ontario and how they do not have access
to clean water. Students will further connect this to the number of boil water
advisories across Canada comparing which province has the highest number in a bar
graph.
2. Learning Intentions for class: I am able to reflect, using my own views and
learned knowledge, on what the community of Neskantaga should do with their
water filtration system. I am to complete a bar graph showing the amount of boil
water advisories across Canada, using the data provided.
3. Big ideas: Science 6/7-evidence of climate change over geological times and the
recent impact on humans. Extreme environments exist on Earth.
Math 6/7- Numeracy helps us to see patterns, communicate ideas and solve
problems. Patterns allow us to see relationships and develop generalizations. We
can apply mathematics to inquiry questions and use it to communicate
information and data. Data enables us to draw conclusions and make predictions
in an unstable world.
4. Assessment:
Lesson outcome
1. Students will be able to
gain knowledge from video.
2. Students will be able to
create a bar graph using
data provided.

Sources of evidence
-worksheet will be filled out
correctly using answers
from video if watched
carefully.
-bar graph is complete using
all the numbers given.

Criteria
- answers are appropriate
and correct.
-bar graph has a different
colour for each bar, a
legend, titles on y and x
axis, neat ruler drawn lines.

5. Resources/Materials: Neskantaga village video:

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/video/canadas-waterless-communities-neskantaga ,
worksheet on video, graphing paper, data on boil water advisories.
6. Lesson development:
Development
Introduction- Let students know we will be covering the topic of how
some aboriginal communities dont have access to clean water; we will
be specifically looking at the Neskantaga community.

Pacing

-Show students the video on Neskantaga village. Pass out worksheets to

just one student at each of the tables and ask them to hold on to the
worksheets face down until told to hand them out to their group.

16mins

-Ask the students to discuss in their small table groups if they would
agree with the Neskantaga community and not want the filtration system
or if they would give up the land for clean water.

3mins
1min

-ask one person per group to share out their tables thoughts.
-Once the small discussions are over ask the one student at each table to
hand out the worksheets to the rest of their group. Then ask different
students in the class to read out each one of the questions on the
worksheet.

1min

10mins

-Let the students complete the worksheet.

-have the students hand in with their name on the sheet when they are
done.
-choices for free time are quiet journal writing or quiet reading.
-Bring the data up on the projector to show the students. Let them know
this is amount of boil water advisories throughout Canada
-Go over the criteria for the bar graph: different colour per bar, legend
clearly written in top right corner, titles on x and y axis, title at the top,
name, lines drawn with ruler.

2min
10mins

-Get two students to hand out the graph paper and instruct the rest of the
students to get out their pencil crayons, rulers and pencils.
-let the students have time to create their bar graph. Have them hand in
with done check criteria before they do.

3mins

-once class is done have students write on a piece of scrap paper a ticket
out the door of one thing they learned or found interesting today. Have
them hand it in.
7. Accommodations: Draw an example on the board of a bar graph to ensure no
confusion.

Drinking Water Advisories 2015

British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Ontario
Quebec
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland and Labrador
Yukon Territory
Northwest Territory
Nunavut Territory

544
42
294
155
149
135
2
77
37
233
0
1
0

Date:

Neskantaga video worksheet

Name:

1. How long did the Neskantaga community have a boil water advisory for?
________________
2. Did the first nations want the new filtration system to be built on their land?
____________why? ______________________________________________
__________________________________.
3. What kind of filtration material did the old filtration system use?
__________________ was this one of the materials that could have been used in
last weeks filtration experiment? __________________.
4. How long did the old filtration system work for before they stopped it?
_________________________
5. What happens to their skin when the people of the village use their tap water too
long?
__________________________________________________________________
________________________________
6. Do you think access to water is a human right? Why? ______________________
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
7. If you could choose between having two bottles of water delivered to your house
per week or destroying your land in order to build a filtration system for clean
unlimited water what would you choose? Why?
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