Diverse sensory involvement is a criterion for selecting learning activities. Learners are challenged to learn different skills that reflect their multiple intelligences. Learning is accessible to students with limited English proficiency. This activity, intended for use with primary and intermediate grade levels, illustrates how concepts can be conveyed in more than one way within one activity. Its objective is to enable students to describe a variety of ways and reasons why water is important to people and wildlife.
Procedure Have the students bring in photographs from magazines that show water.
Ask them to look especially for pictures that show how living things depend on water. Display these photographs and use them as a basis for discussion. Ask students to think about some of the ways they have used water that day. Emphasize how all living things are ultimately connected to water. Using a long strip of butcher paper or spacious empty chalkboard for recording, ask the students to list at least 100 words that have something to do with water.