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Activities | Making every drop count |
- National Science Week, Australia
- School theme for 2006 – the Australian Science Teachers Association has produced a teacher’s resource book, Our Dry Continent, that includes facts, activities, experiments, diagrams and useful web sites. The book is free to all Australian schools and ASTA members, or can be purchased from ASTA.
- Waterwatch Victoria, Australia
- Waterwatch education kit – provides information on issues related to water quality and over 30 classroom and field activities for students.
- LandLearn, Australia
Know our catchments – students identify a catchment, then discuss its importance and the meaning of integrated catchment management.
- Environment Protection Authority, Department of Environment and Conservation, New South Wales, Australia
- Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Water, Australia
- Water cycles and catchments – provides activities for students to investigate the water cycle and catchments.
- Catchment management – provides activities and background information for students to investigate the management of water catchments.
- My Internet, Australia
- Waste not, want not – provides a series of four activities on the theme of water consumption. Includes teacher notes.
- Impaq Education, Australia
- Water conservation – students monitor water use at home, identify where water can be saved and make a strategy to use water wisely.
- Melbourne Water Education, Australia
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Waterwatch – students analyse water quality and enter the results on a database.
- Salinity and irrigation – students investigate irrigation methods used along the Murray-Darling River and the reasons for increases in salinity along the river.
- Living with salty water – students investigate river water use for irrigation, the increasing salt load in rivers, water desalination and the effects of environmental flows.
- Global education, AusAID, Australia
- Science upd8, UK
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- Water for all – students learn about some pathogenic micro-organisms in water and discover how water can be made safe to drink.
- Microsoft, USA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA
- University of Missouri, USA
- Waksman Foundation for Microbiology, USA
- Water quality – students analyse the number and type of bacteria in a sample of water.
- BioEd Online, USA
- The water cycle and global warming – students trace the flow of water in the environment and investigate human activities that influence the distribution and quality of water.
- Daily Lesson Plan, New York Times, USA
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