Hello, my name is Ms. Chorekdjian.

I'm so excited to be learning with you today.

I will be helping you with your geography lesson.

We are going to have a great time learning together today.

Let's get started.

Welcome to today's lesson from our unit called The Water Cycle: Why is it Important? This lesson is called Water Around the World.

Your learning outcome will be to explain why water is essential for human life.

You will also identify some of the causes and consequences of people not being able to access water.

Some of this learning is brand new, but I'm here to help you.

This links back to previous learning you might have done about different types of water features locally and globally, and you might have also done some learning around the water cycle and the four main processes in the water cycle.

You might have also looked at how buildings collect rainwater and how water enters and leaves buildings.

Here are the keywords that we will be using together in today's lesson.

Let's practise saying them together, doing my turn, your turn.

Energy.

Energy.

Trade.

Trade.

Disease.

Disease.

Settlement.

Settlement.

Good job, everyone.

Let's find out what our keywords mean.

Energy.

Energy is the power used to make things work, for example, provide heat or light or to operate machinery.

Trade.

Trade is the buying and selling of goods and services between people, companies, and countries.

Disease.

Disease is an illness or sickness caused by poor health, infection, or harmful substances, but not by injury or accident.

Settlement.

Settlements are places where groups of people live and work.

Well done for going through those keywords with me.

We're going to be using them together in today's lesson.

Here are the learning cycles that we will be working through together today.

First, we will look at how humans use water, and then we'll be thinking about if all people have access to water.

I'm really excited about getting started.

I hope you are too.

Let's start our lesson.

Humans use water in lots of different ways.

Can you think of some ways? Pause the video and have a guess.

You might have said that humans use water to wash their clothes, brush their teeth, to wash dishes, maybe to water plants, or you might have also said that humans use water to drink because of this picture here.

Hopefully this picture gave you a clue as to what we're going to be talking about.

Drinking water is one of the most important uses for humans.

Drinking water is essential for humans to survive and stay healthy.

Without drinking any water, a human being can only survive for about three days.

So you can see how vital and important drinking water is for humans, because if we don't drink any water, we'll only survive for three days without it.

It's now time for a true or false check.

That means you've got to think really carefully about whether or not this statement is true or false.

Humans need water to survive.

Is that true or false? Pause the video and answer that check.

How did you get on? Did you say true? That is true, humans do need water to survive.

Let's think about justifying our answer and explaining why it's true.

A, drinking water keeps humans fit and healthy, or B, humans can only survive three days without any water.

Pause the video and justify that answer.

How did you get on? Did you say that humans need water to survive because humans can only survive for three days without any drinking water? That's correct.

Well done if you said that.

You can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

Good job, everyone.

Humans use water for many other things as well, so it might have been some things that you mentioned earlier on in the lesson.

I'm going to show you some images now and give you another chance to discuss this with your partner.

Pause the video here and look at these images.

Discuss how humans might use water in each of these pictures.

How did you get on? Did you say that humans might use water to water plants and grow crops on farms for animals and humans to eat? Did you also say that water produces energy to make electricity? So that's another use that humans have for water.

They use it in hydroelectricity generation.

That means that they harness and use the water to produce energy that makes electricity for us.

Did you also say that humans use water for transport and trade by boat, and that's a way that it reaches other countries? You could have also said that we use water to wash ourselves, our homes, and our belongings, and also to stay healthy and reduce disease.

So all the times you brush your teeth or you wash your hands or you wash your dinner plates, that means that you're keeping yourself safe and healthy and you're reducing the chance of catching any diseases.

Well done if you were able to say all of those different uses that humans have for water.

It's now time for a quick check.

Which picture shows how water can be used for transport and trade? Is it A, B, or C? Pause the video and answer this question.

How did you get on? Did you say image A? That's correct.

So this picture shows a boat, and boats can be used to transport and trade items and goods with other countries.

It's now time for another quick check.

Which picture shows how water can be used to provide energy? Is it A, B, or C? Pause the video and complete that check.

Did you say picture B? That's right, hydropower is a way that water can be used to provide energy.

Well done, everyone.

You can give yourselves another thumbs up.

This map and photo show areas where settlements have been built.

Pause the video and look at the map and the photo and see what you can notice.

Discuss this with a partner.

How did you get on looking at this map and this photo? What did you discuss with your partner? Did you notice that both of these settlements were built near water? That's what I noticed as well.

You could see that the settlements are built very close to rivers in both of these examples.

This is the River Mersey, and this is the River Thames.

People have often built settlements near water because water is needed for many tasks: drinking water, which we've talked about a lot today.

Growing crops, which we've also talked about.

Washing, so it could be washing your food or washing your clothes.

It could also be washing your hands or washing dishes.

Transport and trade, which we've already talked about.

So water is used as a way of transporting things via boats.

Cooking, so you can use water to help you boil up your pasta, boil your rice.

It could also be used for boiling vegetables and making soups and sauces.

And water is also used for animals, so drinking water for the animals to survive, but also washing the animals as well.

Building settlements near water was important for humans to survive.

So here's another picture of the River Thames and the settlement that's around it.

Using water for trade allowed settlements to grow into big towns and cities like we see today, for example, London.

So like I said, here's a photo of the River Thames and London.

It's time for a quick check here.

Why did humans build settlements near water? Is it A, because there was a pretty view over the water; B, because people use water in many different ways; or C, because they didn't have a map to go anywhere else? Pause the video and complete this check.

How did you get on? Did you say B? That's correct, humans built settlements near water because water was used in many different ways, like the examples that we've talked about in today's lesson.

It's now time for task A.

What I would like you to do is to work with a learning partner and make a list of uses of water and rank them in order of importance.

I'd like you to explain your thinking so that you can clearly say why you've ranked those uses in that order.

You can use these sentence stems to help you.

I think mm is the most important because mm.

I think that mm should go below mm because.

I think mm and mm are the same because.

So you can quite clearly see that I'm explaining the order and how I've ranked different uses and my reasoning behind each one.

Pause the video here and complete task A.

Well, geographers, how did you get on with task A? Let's see how these pupils have ranked different uses of water.

"I think drinking is the most important because without water, humans can't live." Remember, we said that humans can only survive for up to three days without water.

"I think trade is the most important because it means we can get things we need from other countries." "Energy is really important too because we use electricity every day." "I think watering crops should go below drinking because we need crops for food." Well done if you were able to rank those different uses and explain your reasoning behind each one.

You can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

That's fantastic learning for today.

Now let's move on to the second part of our lesson.

Let's think about if all people have access to water.

People around the world do not have equal access to a supply of clean, safe water to drink.

This map shows the share of people in different communities around the world who have access to basic drinking water service.

So you can see that the key there tells us what all of those different colours mean.

So the areas that are in grey, we have no data, no information for.

Areas that are in blue shows us that almost everyone has access to basic drinking water.

The light blue shows us that over three quarters of people in those communities have access to basic drinking water service.

Light yellow shows us that half to three quarters of people in those communities have access to basic drinking water service.

And then the last colour, dark orange, shows us that less than half of those people in those communities have access to basic drinking water service.

Take a moment here to have a look and explore this map and see what it tells us about different communities and the access that they have to clean, safe drinking water.

Pause the video now.

Hopefully you've had a chance there to explore that map.

We're going to look at it in a little more detail now.

In the countries shown in dark blue, nearly everyone has access to clean drinking water.

In the countries shown in that red-y orange colour, less than half of the people there have access to clean drinking water.

Hopefully that's what you were able to talk about with your partner as well.

See if you can identify and name some countries where almost everyone has access to clean drinking water.

And then on the other hand, see if you can also name and locate some countries where less than half of the people and communities there have access to clean drinking water.

It's time for a quick true or false check.

That means, again, that you've got to think really carefully about whether or not this statement is true or false.

All people around the world have access to clean water to drink.

Is that true or false? Pause the video now and complete that check.

How did you get on? Did you say false? That's correct.

Not everybody around the world has access to clean water to drink.

Let's think about justifying our answer now and explaining why it's false.

A, in some countries in Africa, more than half the people do not have access to drinking water, or B, clean water is delivered to people through pipes and taps.

Pause the video now and justify your answer.

How did you get on? Did you say A, in some countries in Africa, more than half the people do not have access to drinking water? That's true, and that shows us that not everybody in the world has access to clean water to drink.

Well done if you got that right.

You can give yourselves another thumbs up.

Some reasons why people might not have access to clean, safe water include dry and hot weather conditions.

So you can see there that there's a picture of the soil that looks like it's going through some drought, which means that it's quite hot and there's little or no rain.

War or conflict.

Poverty, that means a lack of money.

Or living far away from water sources like rivers.

No construction of pipelines or sewers for water could also be a reason why people might not have access to clean, safe drinking water.

In some places, charities help to provide a clean water supply for people to share.

There you can see a tap that's been built by one charity in particular to help people have access to clean, safe water without having to walk for miles to access it.

It's now time for another quick check.

Which two of these are reasons why some people might not have access to clean water? A, it has not rained for a long time; B, there is a war in their country; or C, there isn't any water in their country.

Pause the video now and complete this check.

How did you get on? Did you select the two answers A and B? It has not rained for a long time and there is war in their country.

Both of these reasons are reasons why people might not have access to clean water.

Good job, everyone.

You can give yourselves another thumbs up.

Every country in the world does have water, but there are different reasons why people can't access that water, like we said in the previous slides.

When there is limited access to clean, safe water in a community, there can be serious consequences for people.

What consequences do you think that there could be for people? So what do you think are the results of not having access to clean and safe water? Pause the video now and answer that question.

How did you get on? Did you say something like this pupil? "I remember we learned that humans can only survive a few days without drinking water." That's correct.

All of us need to have water to survive.

Other consequences might include a higher risk of infection or diseases because dirty water can contain bacteria and things that make us sick.

You might have also said other consequences, like not being able to water crops or plants.

So that might mean that there wouldn't be enough food to eat.

Good job, everyone, if you've talked about some of the consequences that people could face as a result of not having access to clean, safe drinking water.

Here are some more ideas.

Without access to enough clean water to drink, people are thirsty and they could die.

People might use dirty water for everyday tasks like cooking.

Some diseases live in and are spread through dirty water.

Diseases can make people very sick.

Humans need to wash themselves and brush their teeth to stay healthy.

So these are just a few ideas as to the consequences of not having access to safe, clean water.

It's time for a quick check.

How does lack of clean water lead to diseases? A, people can die if they don't drink enough water; B, food tastes bad when it's made with dirty water; or C, some diseases live in dirty water.

Pause the video now and complete that check.

How did you get on? Did you say C, some diseases live in dirty water? That's correct.

So a lack of clean water can lead to disease because diseases grow in dirty water, and that can make people very ill and very sick.

Well done if you got that right.

You can give yourselves another thumbs up.

It's now time for task B.

What I would like you to do is to read through these statements.

Then, I'd like you to categorise them as either a cause or a consequence of a lack of access to clean water for people around the world.

So a cause means a reason for them not to have access to water, and a consequence is a result of not having access to clean water.

The statements that you can choose from include: no money, or poverty.

People have to use dirty water.

Far away from a river.

Dry weather, it never rains.

People are thirsty.

No pipelines.

And finally, people can catch diseases that live in dirty water.

Pause the video now and complete task B.

How did you get on with task B? Here's how I categorised these statements as either causes or consequences of a lack of access to clean water for people around the world.

The causes include no money, or people who live in poverty.

No pipelines to transport that clean water to areas where communities are.

People living far away from a river.

And dry weather if it never rains in that particular area or community.

And then the statements that I listed as consequences of not having access to clean water include: people are thirsty, people have to use dirty water, and finally, people can catch diseases that live in dirty water.

Hopefully you were able to separate those statements into causes and consequences like I've done today.

You've worked really hard today thinking about why water is essential for human life, and also thinking about some of the causes and consequences of people not having access to clean, safe water.

Well done, everyone.

You've worked really hard today.

We've now come to the end of our lesson, so we're going to go through a quick summary of all of the learning that we've completed together today.

Water is essential for humans to survive and live a healthy life.

Humans use water for drinking, washing, growing crops, energy production, transport and trade, and many more uses.

For this reason, lots of settlements were built near water sources like rivers.

People around the world do not have equal access to clean, safe water.

This can have serious consequences: diseases can spread and people may die.

Well done, everyone, for working through this lesson.

You've been fantastic today.

Thank you for joining me and sharing your learning with me.

I'll see you next time for more geography lessons soon.

Bye-bye.