Years 6 to 7 (Unit 2)
Drinkable water
In this unit, students explore water issues in developing countries before investigating how drinking water is treated. They conduct a school water audit and make recommendations to the school administration.
The unit is available as a complete PDF for ease of printing. It has also been split into sections for faster downloading.
Years 6 to 7 Unit 2: Drinkable water (PDF, 1.1M)*
Content of Unit 2 in sections
- Cover and contents (PDF, 485K)*
- Introduction (PDF, 438K)*
- Lesson 1: Water around the world (PDF, 429K)*
- Lesson 2: Where does our drinking water come from? (PDF, 429K)*
- Lesson 3: How do people in developing countries access drinking water? (PDF, 425K)*
- Lesson 4: Water in my catchment (PDF, 417K)*
- Lesson 5: What do we find in our water? (PDF, 431K)*
- Lesson 6: Filtering groundwater (PDF, 430K)*
- Lesson 7: Making water drinkable—water treatment (PDF, 422K)*
- Lesson 8: Make a solar still (PDF, 439K)*
- Lesson 9: Water supplies—now and for the future (PDF, 427K)*
- Lessons 10 a, b, c, d and e: Purified recycled water—case study (PDF, 873K)*
- Lesson 10a: Purified recycled water—case study (PDF, 425K)*
- Lesson 10b: Resource 7—Purified Recycled Water process cycle (PDF, 430K)*
- Lesson 10c: Resource 8—The Western Corridor Recycled Water Project: Fact sheet (PDF, 91K)*
- Lesson 10d: Resource 9—Barrier system: Retrieval chart (PDF, 26K)*
- Lesson 10e: Resource 10—Map of South East Queensland Western Corridor Recycled Water Project Pipeline (PDF, 369K)*
- Lesson 11: School water audit (PDF, 447K)*
- Lesson 12: Writing a school water action plan (PDF, 429K)*
More resources
A digital version of the Water: Learn it for life! curriculum resources and Whizzy's Incredible Journey's Pick-a-Path book is avaialble on our Water: Learn it for life! curriculum resource CD-ROM. To order the CD or a printed hard copy, go to the online order form.
For additional Whizzy resoruces, including Whizzy's Song, go to Whizzy's Resources. For other online water educational resources see the Resource Bank.
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Last updated: 13 August 2009