Sensing a Sand Crisis

“The NVIV (Next Vista Inspiring Video) series of posts are written by Rushton Hurley and designed to provide students and teachers with fascinating discussion prompts.”

In Sensing a Sand Crisis, Rushton features a video that talks about the looming sand crisis.

Rushton gives the following prompts to accompany this video:

“Think about other often-discussed problems. Is there a disconnect between how some problems are normally described and what the issues actually are? In effect, can overly simple descriptions create more complex problems?

Have you ever tried to explain something to someone, been surprised when that person became angry, and then realized that the person didn’t understand what you meant because you hadn’t provided enough detail? Is that different, in terms of communication, than the situation with sand?”

I never thought about how much we take sand for granted. I tend to think of sand as never-ending and not as a resource that could be in crisis. This had me looking at other things I take for granted. It would interesting for students to list other things that we don’t think about ever losing but could be a resource in crisis.

Please check out the video and think of other prompts you might come up with. Please share.