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Wicked Water Works

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Wicked Water Works is an interactive classroom workshop where students simulate the challenge of distributing limited resources across society. Using quizzes, group decision-making, and discussion, participants explore financial inequality and the systems that shape economic outcomes. Designed for higher education, the lesson includes slides, exercises, and discussion materials to run a 90–120 minute session.

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Complete workshop materials

Everything you need to run the Wicked Water Works workshop is available below. The materials are designed to help facilitators quickly prepare the session while giving participants clear guidance during the activity.

The package includes the full lesson plan, presentation slides to guide the workshop, quiz questions for the warm-up activity, online app for the core activity, and discussion prompts for the thematic table conversations. Together, these resources structure the experience from introduction through simulation to reflection and debrief.

You can use the materials as provided or adapt them to fit your audience, course objectives, or teaching format.

Theme table questions.docx
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Lesson plan Wicked Water Works.docx
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Warmup quiz.docx
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Wicked Water Work.pdf
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Wicked Water Works and discusson tables.pptx
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