Create a Family Water Conservation Plan
Learn water-saving tips and create a plan to conserve water by making small changes at home.
Water is an important natural resource. We need clean water for drinking, washing our hands, and growing food. We can help to make sure there is enough water for everyone by conserving water, which means using less every day.
In the video Back to Canalia’s Future, the Cybersquad meets Pearl and learns that the water levels in Canalia are slowly going down and will dry up completely unless Canalia’s residents learn how to conserve water. Can the Cybersquad and Pearl use their problem-solving skills (and time machine) to help save Canalia’s future?
Watch this three part video to learn simple ways to save a little bit of water each day. Then create a plan to conserve water by making small changes in your home.
Materials
Directions
Ask your child to think of all the times that your family uses water at home each day. Starting when you wake up in the morning, go through your normal routine. Every time you think of an activity that uses water, write it in the chart in the Water Conservation Plan printable.
Read the water-saving tips chart with your child and think about the water saving ideas you saw in the videos. Then pick at least three ways that your family can try to save water at home.
On the Water-Saving Plan page, ask your child to write your family’s plan for saving water.
Let your child color or decorate the plan. Then put it in a place where everyone can see it, so you will all be reminded to follow the plan every day.
Explore Further
Create separate plans for each room of the house that uses water, such as the bathroom, the kitchen, and the laundry room.
For more environmentally conscious activities, try making sustainable stuffed Nature Cat toys or upcycling bags into a jump rope.
Photographs by Chelsea Foy.
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