We all need water

• This is a valuable resource for the Earth's environment sustains us all unit of study in the year 4 geography curriculum. It is particularly relevant to the content description about the opportunities and constraints that the environment provides people and places. The photos and geographical information about Niger are important for this content description. The focus on appropriate and sustainable use of water resources contributes to the sustainability cross-curriculum priority.
• The resource contributes to students attaining the achievement standard in year 4 geography. It helps them describe the environmental features of different places in different locations. They identify patterns in these features and the factors that influence them. They describe the role of environments in supporting human and other life and recognise the need for their protection.
• The resource contributes to students attaining the achievement standard in year 4 English. It helps them students create structured texts to explain ideas for different audiences.
• It is also relevant to the sustainability cross-curriculum priority, particularly the fifth organising idea that world views are formed by experiences at personal, local, national and global levels, and are linked to individual and community actions for sustainability.
• The resource may be of some use in relation to the intercultural understanding general capability. There are visual and information texts to diverse places, peoples, cultures and environments.

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