Here you will find six topics designed to educate your primary and middle years students about water: where it comes from, how it is treated to make it safe to drink, how they use it every day and how they can use it wisely to make sure we have supply now and into the future. Each topic can be taught individually or they can be sequenced to create a full unit of work.
Please note: to complete some of the activities, you will need access to the resources in the Interactives section.
Topics
- Topic 1: Why do we need water? (pdf, 211 kb)
- Topic 2: Where does our water come from? (pdf, 223 kb)
- Topic 3: On the surface or under the ground (pdf, 216 kb)
- Topic 4: Water treatment (pdf, 186 kb)
- Topic 5: Which water do I use? (pdf, 218 kb)
- Topic 6: Using our water wisely (pdf, 218 kb)
- Complete unit of work (topics 1 to 6) (pdf, 287 kb)
Activity sheets
- Water mind map (pdf, 189 kb)
- Water cycle puzzle - level 1 (pdf, 398 kb)
- Water cycle puzzle - level 2 (pdf, 392 kb)
- Water cycle puzzle - level 1 and 2 solutions (pdf, 397 kb)
- Mini water cycle (pdf, 204 kb)
- Creating an aquifer (pdf, 281 kb)
- Bore-to-tap sequence 1 (with reverse osmosis) (pdf, 1.3 mb)
- Bore-to-tap sequence 1 (with reverse osmosis) solutions (pdf, 1.2 mb)
- Bore-to-tap sequence 2 (UV treatment only) (pdf, 1.2 mb)
- Bore-to-tap sequence 2 (UV treatment only) solutions (pdf, 1.1 mb)
- Water at any time (pdf, 192 kb)
