Lesson Plan for Presenting SODIS System to Community Members
Level of workshop leader: Promoter
Level of Workshop Participant: End-user; Community Member
Duration of Workshop: 5 hours
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Date: Lesson number:
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR LESSON PLAN
Workshop Position in Progression of Workshops:
- Previous workshop: Diarrhea in Children: Participatory Approach
- This workshop: Practical Demonstration of Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS).
- Next workshop: Hygiene in the Kitchen.
Assumed Knowledge
An understanding that drinking disinfected water is a major component in reducing the incidence of diarrhea in children.
Anticipated Difficulties/Problems
- Information may not be well received due to cultural differences between workshop leaders and participants.
- Community members may be resistant to behavioral changes.
- Strong personalities may dominate workshops.
Solutions
- It is important that the promoter is from the same culture and speaks the same language as the workshop participants.
- Drawings and illustrations should be appropriate for and familiar to the community members.
- Strong personalities may be able to be reasoned with in order to understand the importance of the participatory process – or given projects that will occupy them.
Useful Internet Links:
This lesson plan has been adapted from the Training Manual for SODIS Promotion , and from the PHAST Step-by-Step Guide: A participatory approach for the control of diarrhea disease.
The SODIS website
SODIS Flipchart Posters, workshop materials and additional manuals for download.
SODIS Handout for Promoters. A useful, detailed summary of the SODIS system.
PURPOSE
Goal of Workshop: What workshop participants will be able to do as a result of the lesson.
The purpose of the workshop is to reinforce the importance of drinking safe water and to provide training in the proper application and use of the SODIS method.
Objective 1: All participants will understand why the system is important and how it works.
Objective 2: All will be able to use the system on their own and be comfortable taking it home to use.
Objective 3: All participants will successfully be able to continue using the system over the course of one year.
MATERIALS
- PET-bottles of different sizes, shapes, conditions and colors.
- Possible filter materials.
- Possible bottle supports.
- If available water quality testing tool kit.
- Turbid Water.
- SODIS Logo or Newspaper for Turbidity Test.
- Artist’s drawings/ posters ; Make sure that the scenes and people they contain will appear familiar to the community members participating in the workshop.
- SODIS Flipchart Posters for reference .
- How-To cards without written words for workshop participants to take home. Make sure that the scenes and people they contain will appear familiar to the community members participating in the workshop.
- Large sheets of newsprint and tape.
- Colored markers.
- How-To Card.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF LESSON
Introduction:
Activity 1. Solar Water Disinfection ( SODIS) Introduction
- Workshop Leader with Workshop Participants: Introductions. Ice Breaker: Sing a song or play a game.
- Workshop Leader: Statement of Purpose: Tell the participants what they’ll be able to do as a result of the lesson.
Guided Practice:
Activity 2. Bottles
Activity 3. Turbidity
Activity 4. Methods for removing Turbidity
Activity 5. Where to expose the bottles to sunlight.
Activity 6. The influence of the weather.
Activity 7. Storage of treated water.
Independent Practice:
Activity 8. Practical use of the SODIS system.
Workshop Conclusion, Follow-Up, Monitoring and Evaluation
Activity 9. Conclusion
Activity 10. Follow Up
Activity 11. Monitoring and Evaluation
Participatory Needs Assessment
A participatory needs assessment that signaled the viability of this activity for this community should have already been completed. If not, click on the link above.
BEGINNING OF LESSON:
INTRODUCTION
Activity 1. Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS) Introduction
Purpose
Introduce and Explain what Solar Water Disinfection is.
Time
60 minutes (including a 20 minute ice-breaker)
Materials
Drawings/Posters
How-to Cards
PET-bottles of different sizes, shapes, conditions and colors
Possible bottle supports
If available water quality testing tool kit
What to do
Workshop Leader
1. Introduction to workshop
2. Introductions
3. Ice Breaker: Sing a song or play a game.
- Use practical examples of the effect of sunlight and UV-A radiation (getting sun burnt).
- Give an overview of how the SODIS system works.
- Wash the bottle well the first time you use it.
- Fill the bottle with water and close the lid well.
- Expose the bottles to the sun morning to evening for at least 6 hours.
- The water is now ready to drink.
- Show the benefits of the SODIS system in drinking clean water and a reduction in diarrhea.
- DEMONSTRATION: If possible, test the water at the beginning of class, and then again after 6 hours in the sun.
Workshop Participants:
Take 5 mins to discuss the SODIS system. Talk about what you do and don’t understand, what you do and don’t like.
