World Water Day (March 22)
UNESCO’s World Water Day is on the 22nd of March. The theme this year is "water for sustainable development". There are seven aspects - health, nature, urbanization, industry, energy, food, and equality.
UNESCO’s World Water Day is on the 22nd of March. The theme this year is "water for sustainable development". There are seven aspects - health, nature, urbanization, industry, energy, food, and equality.
For more information about World Water Day go to https://www.worldwaterday.org/
Compassion UK shares 30 striking water photos about access to water around the world.
Science ARB resources provide support for exploring some of these aspects.
Nature
Four resources on the Assessment Resource Banks (ARB) focus on freshwater ecosystems.
Students complete drawings of things found in or near a waterway, and describe relationships between them.
Students play a tag game that simulates the relationships between elements within a waterway, and discuss how different scenarios impact on the populations living there.
Play a card game to join two sentence fragments to complete a sentence. Assessment focus: a) relationships of elements in a waterway, and b) science vocabulary.
Students play a card game to construct a waterways relationships web.
Reflecting the importance of water in our lives, there are many resouces that focus on the water cycle, including climate change. Here is a selection (there are many more).
Match the parts of a water cycle to the parts represented in a model of the water cycle and compare how they are the same and different. Assessment focus: interpreting a model.
Complete a diagram of part of the water cycle and answer a question about rain. Assessment focus: Question a) – the water cycle and conventions of diagrams; question b) – evaporation of a solution.
Answer questions about what happens to water in open and closed containers and compare to the water cycle. Assessment focus: evaporation, the water cycle.
Students use a diagram to answer questions about water reserves, the main difference between lake and sea water, and to explain how water in the ocean could end up falling as snow in the mountains.
Students are provided with a diagram that shows some ways water moves in a water cycle. Students are required to explain what is happening in three places and explain how water that falls as snow might get to the sea.
Students write a story about the water cycle using a given sequence of events that take place.
For this task students are provided with three pie graphs on water. Students are required to interpret these to answer four short answer questions.
Students formulate questions about glaciers and climate change to show awareness that informed opinions are based on inter-related aspects of evidence rather than individual instances.
Students review their knowledge of greenhouse gases and the effects of global warming. They identify areas where they are unsure, as well as things they know.
Energy
The following resource focuses on a renewable energy source.
Using statements from four people decide and justify whether or not each person supports wind farms. Identify which person has a misconception about wind farms, giving a reason. Assessment focus: identifying different perspectives.
To access the Assessment Resource Banks go to arbs.nzcer.org.nz
To register for your own teacher account go to arbs.nzcer.org.nz/register
armest regards
The ARB team
