The purpose of our work is to educate young students regarding water conservation and how this topic relates to the water crisis. Our individual products play a role in each of us contributing to a lesson in the water fair, surveys, and the toolkit. Each of our products and contributions help us achieve our overarching goal.
The target audience for our project is 5th-12th-grade students. We want to focus on educating kids about water conservation and better water habits. The youth of today are one of the most important stakeholders in society and have a huge impact on the environment. Other stakeholders that could utilize our research and products are local schools, educators, our partners, and especially after-school programs without specific curriculum criteria. To best understand our project, teachers should read the water fair tool kit, which gives them access to different water conservation lesson plans and other important water fair tips. To utilize the water fair toolkit to its best ability, first open the “Read Me” file. Here you will find the motive behind this project as well as how to properly use the toolkit.
It’s very important that our research be shared so that it can make a greater change and inspire other schools to teach water conservation. The value of our research reaching communities and our partners after school program makes a greater difference to a whole generation of kids and raises awareness to build sustainable habits to have clean water for many more years, and future generations can have access to clean water.
It can be said that respect, equity, and integrity are imperative ethics to consider as they relate to the work we plan to conduct. More importantly, we must consider that our largest stakeholders are children, and we must not rush in hastily because we need to tread very carefully when it comes to the ethics of working with children.
As a group, we keep in communication through text messages as our main way to check on each other and share updates about our work. We also discuss and set deadlines that give us enough time to look over and review our work before turning it in. We have a shared Google Drive folder that has all necessary documents, pictures, and articles.