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Introduction
Introduction
In this lesson you will:
think about the importance of clean water
learn about the processes used to clean drinking water
understand the the importance of sustainability in clean water supplies.
Inquiry question and intentions
Inquiry question and intentions
Inquiry question:
How is clean drinking water produced?
Learning intentions
To explain separation techniques used in producing clean drinking water.
To describe ways to ensure sustainability of drinking water.
To use secondary sources to construct flow charts of water purification processes.
Activity 1 - Thinking about clean water
Activity 1 - Thinking about clean water
Look closely at this picture. In your exercise book or folder jot down:
What do you see?
What do you think?
What do you wonder?
Activity 2 - Water purification
Activity 2 - Water purification
Task 1
Task 1
Watch the video Your drinking water quality.
In your exercise book or folder, make a list of the ways water is monitored and treated to make sure that it is suitable for drinking.
Your drinking water quality
Duration: 1:55
Task 2 - Investigating people's perception of water
Task 2 - Investigating people's perception of water
Aim: To understand what influences people's taste in water.
Click on the image to open the Drinking water taste test PDF (204KB).
Complete the investigation by conducting a blind taste comparison of tap, bottled, filtered and boiled water.
Complete this task by using this blank investigation report template.
Click on the button to open a new tab and view the Google Doc.
Click on the Use Template button to create a copy for you to edit.
Task 3 - Understanding the separation processes used to produce drinking water
Task 3 - Understanding the separation processes used to produce drinking water
Watch the video on Sydney water filtration and make a list of some new words you heard in this video.
Choose at least five of these new words and use them to complete the Water purification definitions activity.
Click on the button to open a new tab and view the Google Doc.
Click on the Use Template button to create a copy for you to edit.
Sydney Water filtration
Duration: 3:29
Task 4 - Water purification flowchart
Task 4 - Water purification flowchart
Create a flowchart that shows how drinking quality water is produced.
Use information from the Water quality and filtration page on the Sydney Water website and the video in Task 3 to construct the flowchart.
Use this Google Doc template to complete your work. The template includes:
tips on what to include in your flowchart
information on how you could make your flowchart.
Task 5
Task 5
Read the article An answer to the clean water crisis on the embedded webpage below.
What might be the benefits of developing a low cost technique to collect freshwater from seawater, brackish water or contaminated water – powered by sunlight?
After reading, answer the following questions in your exercise book or folder:
What are some of the benefits of this technology?
Briefly describe how this technology changes salt water into fresh water?
What physical separation methods are used in this technique?
Handing in your work
Handing in your work
Don't forget to hand in the work you completed today!
Your teacher will have told you to do one of the following:
Upload any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your Learning Management system (MS Teams, Google Classroom for example).
Email any digital documents you created and any photos you took of your written work to your teacher.
Make sure you keep any hand written work you did in your exercise book or folder as your teacher may need to see these when you are back in class.
Student reflection
Student reflection
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