They attend a field trip to an aquatic ecosystem and participate in sense awareness activities and investigations concerning interrelationships and the characteristics of the living things they observe. Students describe their personal perceptions of aquatic ecosystems in their journals. They also pick up and classify litter. Students examine illustrations on a poster to discover how California Indians used water. They investigate ways orange juice is currently distributed and examine ways early American Indians made their drinks.
Cooperative groups select a name associated with water.
Using examples of American Indian art, each student designs and paints a symbol representing water. Students brainstorm and categorize ways people use water. They list and compare the early California Indians' uses of water to their own uses. Students read three stories about how people obtain water in villages found in different parts of the world and compare these to their own acquisition and uses of water. They speculate on the causes and effects of water shortages.