Higher:
Is able to describe what could happen if water wasn't conserved
Middle:
Can explain what conserving water means
Lower:
Understands the importance of water to our lives
Higher:
Is able to complete a water audit and explain ways to save water
Middle:
Can describe practical ways of conserving water in different situations
Lower:
Is able to identify some ways water can be conserved
Lesson Recap Starter: Think back to your last lesson. What can you do to reduce water pollution?
Lesson Starter: Do you know how much water you should drink every day? If they are not sure, write down their guesses on the whiteboard.
To extend the discussion further, ask them how else they use water in a day.
Presentation - Starter Slide
Answer questions and take part in activities during the presentation.
Key Concept:
During this unit, each lesson contains a key concept question housed in the '30 Second Challenge' slide. To help children master this content so the knowledge moves from their short term memory to their long term memory, at the beginning of the follow on lesson the question from the previous lesson is revisited.
The questions covered during this unit include:
1. Write a sentence that defines the term balance of nature.
2. What is an ecosystem?
3. Write a sentence that defines the word pollution.
4. Air pollution is an issue that is harming our world. What can we do to prevent damage to our planet in the future?
5. What can you do to reduce water pollution?
6. Has Alex been wasting or conserving water?
Presentation
Careers Film: Tracy Sacks works for Thames Water as an Education Manager. Tracy spends a lot of her day thinking about how to conserve water in her job.
Expert Film: Tracy Sacks from Thames Water discusses ways to conserve water in our homes.
How we deliver the Gatsby Benchmarks:
2 - Learning from career and labour market information: Pop along to Developing Experts career’s zone to find out about jobs in your area.
4 - Linking curriculum learning to careers: This unit showcases careers at Thames Water. Access our 360° virtual work tours.
7 - Encounters with Further and Higher Education: Pop along to Developing Experts career’s zone to find out about training providers in your area.
Presentation - Expert Film.
Water Audit
Watch the Lesson Assignment Film to help with this task.
Ask the children to think about a day in the week they have had, or prepare them to complete the water audit for the following day.
Encourage the children to discuss what they have found, and come up with some solutions to how water could be conserved, or saved, in these different places.
Think about: mending taps, using less water in a kettle, not using a hosepipe and putting in water butts etc.
Ask the children to use their findings and ideas to create a water saving display for the classroom.
Paper
Pencils
Pens
Handout
Quiz
With their talk partners, the children are to go through the quiz at the end of the presentation and answer the questions.
Quiz in presentation
Can children explain a range of ways of how they can conserve water and why it is important to do so?
Quizzes in pupil zone.
Unit Knowledge Organiser and test available in unit docs area.
It's important to save water because...
Conserving water can help the environment by...
The Science behind the Science
Water must be clean and pure for it to be safe enough for us to drink. If we drank dirty water, we could become very ill.
The water also needs to be freshwater. This means that there is no salt in it. If we drank saltwater, we would become dehydrated and sick.
Because our water needs to be both clean, and fresh, it means that we can only get drinking water from a few places. Also, if we took all of the water out of one place too quickly, we would have to wait for it to fill back up again, and this could take years.
Recognise that environments can change and that these changes can sometimes pose dangers to living things and explore examples of human impact (both positive and negative) on environments.
Materials - Chemical changes - I have investigated different water samples from the environment and explored methods that can be used to clean and conserve water and I am aware of the properties and uses of water. SCN 2-18a
Gathering, recording, classifying and presenting data in a variety of ways to help in answering questions
Grade 5 Water and its Conservation / Our Universe
Grade 4 Earth Science - Earth and its Resources - Water - Uses of water (water conservation)
Know human life is inseparable from fresh water & awareness of water conservation.