Curriculum resource

The Water: Learn it for life! curriculum resource provides early and middle years teachers with an engaging series of lesson plans and activities addressing the following key elements of water education: 

• the water cycle
• water conservation
• water sources and storage
• water efficiency
• water recycling and alternative water sources.

The materials are organised into four year-level groupings—Preparatory to Year 1, Years 2–3, Years 4–5 and Years 6–7, and can be readily adapted for use in a school’s existing curriculum framework.

The supporting material, Background information for teachers, includes all the information required to confidently deliver the lessons and activities.

The PrimaryConnections 5 Es Teaching and Learning Model (PDF, 422K)* has been used to organise and structure the lessons within each unit. An additional component has been added to this model to encourage students to take action as a result of their learning.

The curriculum resource can be downloaded from this website. You can also order a CD-ROM version of the resource online.

Contents

• Introduction
• Background information for teachers
• Preparatory 
• Year 1 
• Years 2 to 3
  • Unit 1: Wonderful water: Adapted from Water works a PrimaryConnections Unit (Australian Academy of Science 2006)
  • Unit 2: Whizzy’s Waterwise experts
• Years 4 to 5
  • Unit 1: Water windows—yesterday, today and tomorrow
  • Unit 2: Waterwise ambassadors
• Years 6 to 7
  • Unit 1: Water journeys
  • Unit 2: Drinkable water

* Requires Acrobat Reader

Last updated: 04 September 2009

Curriculum resource

• Introduction
• Teacher information
• Preparatory
• Year 1
• Years 2 to 3 (Unit 1)
• Years 2 to 3 (Unit 2)
• Years 4 to 5 (Unit 1)
• Years 4 to 5 (Unit 2)
• Years 6 to 7 (Unit 1)
• Years 6 to 7 (Unit 2)