Database. Drought for Kids
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What is drought? How does it affect our lives? When we have a drought, it can affect our communities and our environment in many different ways. Everything in the environment is connected, just like everything in our communities is connected. Each different way that drought affects us is what we call an impact of drought.
Drought affects our lives in many different ways because water is such an important part of so many of our activities. We need water to live, and animals and plants do too.
We need water to grow the food we eat. We also use water for many different things in our lives, like washing dishes, cooking, bathing, and swimming or river rafting. Water is also used to help make the electricity we use to run the lights in our houses and the video games you may like to play. When we don’t have enough water for these activities because of a drought, many people and many different things will be affected in many different ways.
We can't stop drought, but we can prepare for it, and make choices that may lessen a drought's damage to our communities and our environment.
Check out the Drought Game ( the last link above)
The Ready for Drought? game is an in-person role-playing game based on the Extreme Event game developed by the National Academy of Sciences. Players work together to solve problems that can arise in their communities during a drought - building a community resilience. They learn to prioritize resources, build coalitions, respond to and assess the impacts of a drought, while practicing critical thinking and improving civic literacy related to drought resilience.
Benefits
Compliment other educational and outreach tools
Serve as a team building activity and/or ice breaker during meetings, conferences, or in a high school/college classroom.
Short, simple and low-cost
Playing time 90+ minutes. Downloadable package with the entire game and instructions that can be easily printed.
Demonstrates the importance of community resilience, communication, and coalitions during a complex and evolving natural hazard
Drought-stricken communities solve realistic challenges with sector-related resources and engagement opportunities (with neighboring populations).
Drought affects our lives in many different ways because water is such an important part of so many of our activities. We need water to live, and animals and plants do too.
We need water to grow the food we eat. We also use water for many different things in our lives, like washing dishes, cooking, bathing, and swimming or river rafting. Water is also used to help make the electricity we use to run the lights in our houses and the video games you may like to play. When we don’t have enough water for these activities because of a drought, many people and many different things will be affected in many different ways.
We can't stop drought, but we can prepare for it, and make choices that may lessen a drought's damage to our communities and our environment.
Check out the Drought Game ( the last link above)
The Ready for Drought? game is an in-person role-playing game based on the Extreme Event game developed by the National Academy of Sciences. Players work together to solve problems that can arise in their communities during a drought - building a community resilience. They learn to prioritize resources, build coalitions, respond to and assess the impacts of a drought, while practicing critical thinking and improving civic literacy related to drought resilience.
Benefits
Compliment other educational and outreach tools
Serve as a team building activity and/or ice breaker during meetings, conferences, or in a high school/college classroom.
Short, simple and low-cost
Playing time 90+ minutes. Downloadable package with the entire game and instructions that can be easily printed.
Demonstrates the importance of community resilience, communication, and coalitions during a complex and evolving natural hazard
Drought-stricken communities solve realistic challenges with sector-related resources and engagement opportunities (with neighboring populations).
Keywords
environmental education
drought
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