Educational value

• Provides a pedagogical framework for a series of lessons for teaching about the water cycle.
• Includes ways of integrating digital curriculum resources and other ICT into classroom practice.
• Includes a list of all print, digital and other resources needed to teach the unit.
• Includes printable worksheets and instruction guides.
• Is available in both .doc and .pdf formats to allow teachers to edit the unit to suit their own classroom context.

Learning objectives

• Students identify the sorts of things that require water and why.
• Students investigate the water cycle.
• Students speculate about the consequences of a lack of water.
• Students conduct a water audit.
• Students consider the need to save water.
• Students demonstrate their understandings through a variety of media.

Curriculum area

• Science, Science inquiry skills, Science understanding, The Earth and beyond, Life and living

Year level

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