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  • 6.6.7: Water: A Precious Resource (age 7-11)
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Geography

Water: A Precious Resource (age 7-11)

The value of water is clearly presented in this highly interactive and thought-provoking CD-ROM with the best of BBC video clips, stimulating images, audio and activities,

There are strong cross-curricular links with history, music, literacy and art, allowing for a truly comprehensive exploration of the subject.

 

 

Key features:

• Each page of the CD-ROM is packed with information and activity ideas, ensuring that all aspects of water at KS2 are covered.
• Each pack comes with a FREE teacher's book containing further activities, support and subject information.
• The product is clearly mapped against the curriculum, and allows the user to search within the title for key objectives and keywords.

 

Contents:

Unit 1: Water all around us

• Water Everywhere
• Where does rain come from?
• The water cycle
• The source of a river
• River Features
• Meanders
• A Song from Down Under
• The River Estuary
• A River Story
• River Poems:
  - The River
  - Writing focus: Stream Story
• River Paintings
• Rivers in Music

 

Unit 2: Water For living

• Water in the Home
• How Much Water do we Use?
• Writing Focus: True or False
• Where does the used water go?
• How does water get to and from our homes?
• Do you know what happens to our dirty water?
• Water for the World:
  - Our wet planet
  - Water scarcity
  - The problem with water
• Making water drinkable
• A Tubewell
• How Many?
• How other people get clean water?

 

Unit 3: Water Issues

• Flooding:
  - Flooding in the United Kingdom
  - What happens when it rains in a town or city?
  - A Flooded village
  - A Flooded city
  - Flooding in Bangladesh
• What can we do?
• The Great Stink of 1858
• Threats to water wildlife habitats
• Drought:
  - Water Focus: The vanishing sea
  - The vanishing lake
  - No water at all
  - What is Wajir like?
  - Graphs to show the climate in Wajir

 

Unit 4: The Uses of Water

• How many different ways?
• Water for fishing
• Water for local industry
• Water for agriculture
• The Leeds and Liverpool canal
• The story of the canal
• Water Fountains
• The Norfolk Broads
• Water sports
• Living by water

 

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