Environment Common Core 6.G.A.2 resources

What Volume of Your Home Water Usage Could be Supplied by Rainfall?

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In this mini-project, students will get practice calculating the volume of a rectangular prism, performing unit conversions and creating a bar graph to answer the question "How Much of Your Home Water Usage Could be Supplied by Rainfall?" I love that this question also gets students wondering and curious about water sustainability, water barrels and their own water usage.Over the course of this mini-project, students will read about the Cape Town water crisis of 2018, plan how they will collect

Subjects:

Environment, Geometry, Math

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Projects, Activities, Lesson

CCSS:

6.G.A.2

, 7.G.B.6

, 6.RP.A.3d