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CSI: Day Seven Agenda

CSI: Day Seven Agenda. Terri R. Hebert The University of Texas at Tyler thebert@mail.uttyl.edu. Water Bill of Rights. Continue work on group projects Make group presentations to larger group Discussions of pertinence of activity. Water Bill of Rights.

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CSI: Day Seven Agenda

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  1. CSI: Day Seven Agenda Terri R. Hebert The University of Texas at Tyler thebert@mail.uttyl.edu

  2. Water Bill of Rights • Continue work on group projects • Make group presentations to larger group • Discussions of pertinence of activity

  3. Water Bill of Rights • http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/assets/public/comm_exec/pubs/archive/gi228/index.html • “Surface Water Rights in Texas:How They Work and What to Do When They Don't”

  4. Water Bill of Rights • http://www.texaswatermatters.org/about_us_matters.htm • “Why should water matter to you?”

  5. Water Bill of Rights • http://www.texaswater.org/water/law/default.htm • “Texas Water Law”

  6. Pass the Jug • To stimulate and analyze different water rights policies and to learn how water availability and people’s proximity to the resource influence how water is allocated.

  7. Pass the Jug • What is purpose of water rights? • Allows a person, business, community, or other group to use a specified amount of water. • Provides an organized and systematic way to allocate water. • What is the history of water rights?

  8. Pass the Jug • What is the history of water rights? • Riparian Rights or Common-Law Doctrine gives people who own land bordering a water source the right to use that water however they choose. • More recent version requires people to justify their uses as reasonable, as well as ensuring that land owners downstream have their fair share of water.

  9. Pass the Jug • What is the history of water rights? West of the Mississippi: Prior Appropriation Doctrine regulates water rights by maintaining “first come, first served,” or “first in time is first in right.”

  10. Pass the Jug • What is the history of water rights? Exceptions include federal and tribal reserved water rights, created to provide adequate water for lands owned by the federal government and Native American nations.

  11. Pass the Jug • How can we meet the growing demands of future centuries? Water rights transfers Water rights changes Water marketing Water leasing

  12. CSI: Day Nine Agenda Terri R. Hebert The University of Texas at Tyler thebert@mail.uttyl.edu

  13. Hot Water • Utilizing debating strategies, students will learn how to present a valid argument regarding a water-related issue.

  14. Question/AnswerPeriod • As you prepare for the students to arrive, are there any thoughts, concerns, questions that you must state before moving on the next phase? • “In the process of ongoing education of teachers, the essential moment is that of critical reflection on one’s practice. Thinking critically about practice, of today or yesterday, makes possible the improvement of tomorrow’s practice” (Freire, p. 44).

  15. Concluding Thought • “The streams of relationships flow together with the streams of purposes in a school to help form a river of leadership” (Donaldson, p. 48).

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