Teacher guide Activity: Australia's water future communication project

TLF ID M014384

This is a web resource about water issues in Australia that provides a student activity accompanied by a teacher guide. The activity requires students to identify water issues that may affect Australia in the future, describe their possible effects and develop a presentation about these issues. A student worksheet provides activity instructions, including research questions, and suggests that students work in small groups to develop the presentation.





Educational details

Educational value
  • This is a useful resource that supports the Water in the world substrand in the Geographical Knowledge and Understanding strand of the geography curriculum for year 7, particularly for the content descriptions that refer to the nature of water scarcity and ways of overcoming it, including studies drawn from Australia; and the causes, impacts and responses to an atmospheric or hydrological hazard. It also supports the Geographical Inquiry and Skills strand for year 7. The resource may also be useful for the Literacy strand of year 7 English.
  • This resource supports the Sustainability cross-curriculum priority. It encourages students to consider how water resources might be impacted by climate change and drought, how to balance the environment, agriculture, community and industry in terms of their need for water and how we can make better use of our water resources.
Year level

7

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Cool Australia
  • Organization: Cool Australia
  • URL: http://coolaustralia.org/
  • Publisher
  • Name: Cool Australia
  • Organization: Cool Australia
  • Description: Publisher
  • URL: http://coolaustralia.org/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
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Learning Resource Type
  • Online
  • Text
Rights
  • © 2013 Cool Australia. This material may be viewed, displayed, printed out and copied for non-commercial educational purposes provided all acknowledgements associated with this material are retained.