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Teaching Resources: Water

Resources for primary school students (ages 6-12)

Lesson: Water Crisis

A lesson about how climate change impacts water scarcity. 

This lesson involves a PowerPoint presentation by the teacher, reading by the students and small group disccussions. Students can be asked to present their findings to the class.

Source: EcoSchools
Subject Areas: Science, Social Studies.

 

1 x 60 min lessons

  • Computers and smartphones.
  • BBC article and PPT presentation.

Includes a sheet for students to fill in.

This activity may be done with a school in another country to compare results.

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Resources for secondary school students

Lesson: Let’s Save Water

This lesson is designed to inform students about the environmental and monetary costs of water wastage. They will watch videos, discuss and create posters/present their work.
A trip to the wastewater treatment plant could also be conducted

Source: EcoSchools
Subject Area: Science.

1 x 150 min lesson.

  • Water invoice
  • PPT presentation
  • Student’s Book.
  • Videos: Aquametragem; Water, our future?

Includes a sheet for students to fill in.

This activity may be done with a school in another country to compare results.

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Lesson: That Impossible! Just turn on the tap, right?

This lesson introduces students to the idea of thinking about how they use water and whether everyone in the world has the same access to water as they do. the teacher uses a PowerPoint presentation and there are group discussions and students work in group to make a presentation and present it to the class.
Water Calculator can be used but is in US measurements
PowerPoint provided
Evaluation sheet (matrix) is provided.

Source: EcoSchools
Subject Area: Science, Literacy, English.

2x (45 min) and 2x (90 min) lessons.

  • Computers and smartphones.
  • UN Water 2019 report
  • news from newspaper sites.
  • PPT presentation (see Annexe 1); self-assessment grid (see Annexe 2) and digital tools (Power Point, Kahoot, Canvas, Visme, etc).
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Lesson: How do human activities affect water quality?

This lesson is designed for schools in Singapore. The teacher would need to adjust it to suit Tonga but many of the ideas can still be used. Singapore has a similar land area sizer to Tonga but has many rivers.
 
The Students could conduct the water quality testing experiments if alternative sampling locations could be found.

Source: EcoSchools
Subject Area: Science

2x (60 min) 1x (120 min) lessons

  • Worksheets: Pre-fieldwork, Fieldwork and Post-fieldwork ; camera or smartphone (one in each group)
  • Chemistry materials:
  • turbidity testing equipment (Jars, Sacchi disk icon sticker and turbidity chart); dissolved oxygen equipment (jars, small vial 125, dissolved oxygen test labs -3976, dissolved oxygen colour chart)
  • pH testing equipment (Test-tube 0106, pH wide range test tab 6459, pH Colour Chart)
  • Temperature Testing equipment (Thermometers, jars)

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Lesson: Water Crisis

A lesson about how climate change impacts water scarcity. 

This lesson involves a PowerPoint presentation by the teacher, reading by the students and small group disccussions. Students can be asked to present their findings to the class.

Source: EcoSchools
Subject Areas: Science, Social Studies.

 

1 x 60 min lessons

  • Computers and smartphones.
  • BBC article and PPT presentation.

Includes a sheet for students to fill in.

This activity may be done with a school in another country to compare results.

View resource