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how can we help to conserve water

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how can we help to conserve water

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    1. How can we help toconserve water? Why do we need to conserve water? What can we do at home or at school to help? These are some questions we need to ask our selves when thinking about water conservation.

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    4. Assessment Activity Using the knowledge you have gained, create a brochure that is full of water saving tips and facts that can be given to people in homes and in schools to inform them of ways in which they can conserve water. Try and come up with some new water saving tips of your own. What new ways could you use to save water around the home or at school? Be Creative Colourful and Informative.

    5. Enrichment Activities Now that you’ve found out about water conservation, here are some more excellent sites to further your knowledge: Where your water comes from http://www.yvw.com.au/waterschool/juniors.html Visit the interactive House for a fun way to find out some interesting facts about water saving in and around the home http://www.sydneywater.com.au/SavingWater/InYourHome/InteractiveHouse/ Learn About the Water Cycle http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/riversandcoasts/water_cycle/

    6. Teacher Support Materials Water Saving Activities and Games What's so serious about a dripping tap? Students collect water dripping from a tap, and draw conclusions about how much water can be lost through this medium. http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/waterwise/resources/pdf/activities/p3drippingtap.pdf Home Water Investigator: The Home Water Investigator provides many opportunities to link the classroom to broader community issues and to make the curriculum more relevant to the lives and interests of students’.Twenty-one classroom activities are provided to accompany the Home Water Investigator. http://education.melbournewater.com.au/content/water_supply/saving_water_at_home_and_school/home_water_investigator/home_water_investigator.asp The Mission H2O The interactive adventure is a great way for kids to have fun while learning about water conservation. http://www.savewater.com.au/mission-h2o-game Yarra Valley Water Water Saving Games and Activities http://www.yvw.com.au/waterschool/juniors.html SACSA Year 3 - Primary Years - Standard 2 (Towards the end of Year 4) Strand: Place, space and environment Key Idea: Students consider sustainability and care of resources and places as they explore how people’s attitudes and values affect their interactions with natural features and cycles. [F] [In] [KC6] Outcome: 2.6 - Understands that people cause changes in natural, built and social environments, and they act together in solving problems to ensure ecological sustainability. [F] [In] [KC6] Eg. discusses the concept of ecological sustainability, identifies personal responsibility, and collaborates in environmental projects. [F] [T] [KC2] [KC4] Key Idea: Students examine natural and social environments in local and global communities, analysing patterns, systems and relationships. [In] [T] [KC1] This includes such learning examining natural resources, cycles and events (eg the water cycle, river systems, erosion, salinity, volcanic action), analysing how they affect people’s lives, and describing how the decisions people make affect the cycles within natural systems (eg in a water catchment, the availability of resources) [F] [In] [KC1] [KC2]

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