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Lesson Objective: The objective of this lesson is for students to develop research skills and learn about:

- The causes of drought
- Locations of droughts in Australia and West Asia
- The effect of climate change on water sustainability and the increasing severity of drought
- What governments currently do to alleviate the severity of drought
- How the increasing threat of drought on water sustainability and humanity's survival could be minimised.
- How to use Haikudeck

graph on water distribution:
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Drought

Published on Feb 07, 2016

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Drought

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Lesson Objective: The objective of this lesson is for students to develop research skills and learn about:

- The causes of drought
- Locations of droughts in Australia and West Asia
- The effect of climate change on water sustainability and the increasing severity of drought
- What governments currently do to alleviate the severity of drought
- How the increasing threat of drought on water sustainability and humanity's survival could be minimised.
- How to use Haikudeck

graph on water distribution:
http://chartsbin.com/view/1469
Photo by angela7dreams
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What is Drought?

Brainstorm Activity
Either conduct a mindmap on the board or use mindmeister.com to get students thinking about the points outlined in the lesson objective.
Photo by Global Water Partnership - a water secure world
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Effective Research

  • Start with a question
  • Identify the key words
  • Plug it into a search engine
  • Take notes
  • Note source details for referencing
  • Transfer notes into an argument
  • Present it
Discuss how increasing the specificity of the search will result in superior information and sources.
Photo by Viewoftheworld
4.

What do we want to know?

Make a list of what we want to know.

From this create the research question/s

Distill to key words

Make sure to include:
- causes
- locations - West Asia (India, Bangladesh, etc) and Australia
- Problems: How is drought affecting the regions previously mentioned/how does it impact quality of life/is the problem getting worse
- How do governments deal with drought
- How could we increase our potable water supplies to minimise the effects of drought?
Photo by Oberazzi
5.

Can we trust all sources?

Are all sources reliable?

How can we check?

If a source is unreliable should we:
a) not use it
b) verify it with a reliable source
c)compare it to a reliable source
d) use it anyway
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6.

Instagrok

https://www.instagrok.com/
Instagrok is a great tool for starting students on research as it identifies all issues related to their search and provides summaries of all the websites, video etc on that topic and those related to it.
Photo by gw225
7.

Notetaking

  • Will this help me answer my question?
  • What are the key points?
  • Is the source reliable?
  • Reference
Discuss how copying everything on a website is pointless as when you come to write/create your assignment you will just have to read it all again.

Therefore, you need to identify the pieces of info that are relevant to your question and distill it to the key points
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8.

Presenting

https://www.haikudeck.com
Haikudeck is a PowerPointesque presentation tool that enables students to enter text and then sift through relevant pictures provided by the tool.

We are providing the students with different presentation tools as they will need them for future presentations.
Photo by thewikiman

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