CEE: International Thirst: Scarcity Across the Sea

In this webinar teachers will:

• Review information concerning the current water crisis.
• Relate the concepts of scarcity, allocation of limited resources, opportunity cost, and decision-making to the topic of water scarcity.
• Learn how climate change will likely exacerbate a worldwide water crisis.
• Consider the cross curricular possibilities of the topic as related to the social sciences and STEM lessons.
• Discuss class and wealth differences in relation to clean water accessibility.
• Examine the children’s books “Thirst” by Varsha Bajaj, “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park and “The Water Princess” by Susan Verde.