### Lesson Plan: Water Supply
**Class:** Senior Secondary 1
**Duration:** 60 minutes
**Subject:** Health Education
**Topic:** Water Supply
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**1. Learning Objectives:**
By the end of this lesson, students should be able to:
1. Understand the importance of a clean water supply.
2. Identify sources of water supply.
3. Describe the processes involved in water treatment.
4. Recognize common issues related to water supply and their health impacts.
5. Suggest methods to ensure clean and adequate water supply.
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**2. Materials Needed:**
- Whiteboard and markers
- Projector and laptop
- PowerPoint presentation (or other visual aids)
- Handouts with key points
- Videos demonstrating water treatment processes (if available)
- Water sample kits for demonstration (optional)
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**3. Lesson Structure:**
**Introduction: (10 minutes)**
1. **Greeting and Attendance:**
- Warmly greet the students and take attendance.
2. **Engaging Starter Activity:**
- Ask students to define what they understand by ‘water supply’ and write their responses on the board.
- Discuss the importance of water in daily life (drinking, cooking, sanitation, etc.).
**Main Content: (35 minutes)**
1. **Importance of Clean Water Supply:**
- Explain why clean water is crucial for health (prevents diseases, supports hygiene, etc.).
- Show statistics on water-borne diseases and their impact.
2. **Sources of Water Supply:**
- Discuss different sources of water (surface water, groundwater, rainwater).
- Highlight the advantages and disadvantages of each source.
3. **Water Treatment Processes:**
- Use a PowerPoint presentation to explain water treatment steps (filtration, sedimentation, disinfection, etc.).
- (Optional) Show a video or conduct a small demo using water sample kits.
4. **Common Issues in Water Supply:**
- Identify problems like pollution, contamination, scarcity, and infrastructure issues.
- Discuss the health impacts of drinking contaminated water (e.g., cholera, dysentery).
5. **Ensuring Clean and Adequate Water Supply:**
- Discuss ways to ensure water is clean (boiling, using filters, chemicals like chlorine).
- Talk about community efforts and government policies for clean water supply.
- Encourage personal habits that contribute to water conservation and cleanliness.
**Conclusion: (10 minutes)**
1. **Recap:**
- Summarize the key points discussed.
- Ask students to share one new thing they learned from the lesson.
2. **Q&A Session:**
- Allow students to ask questions for further clarification.
3. **Assignment:**
- Handout a worksheet with questions related to water supply for further practice.
- Assign a project: “Find out the source of the local water supply and any treatment processes it undergoes before reaching homes.”
**Closing: (5 minutes)**
- Thank students for their participation.
- Remind them about the importance of clean water.
- Give a brief overview of the next lesson’s topic.
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**4. Assessment Methods:**
- Observation of student participation during the lesson.
- Evaluate responses during Q&A and the recap session.
- Review the worksheet and project assignment for understanding and completion.
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**5. Follow-up:**
- Collect and review assignments in the next class.
- Provide feedback and discuss any common misunderstandings.
- Plan a possible field trip to a local water treatment plant, if feasible, for practical exposure.
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This lesson plan aims to holistically address the topic of water supply, incorporating interactive and educational methods to engage Senior Secondary 1 students effectively.