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"Water, water everywhere but nor any drop to drink."
"Water, water everywhere but nor any drop to drink."
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
This term we are studying fresh water. How much do we have? Where does it come from? How do we look after it? Where do we get our tap water from?
Teacher's Notes: Water Savers Unit Water Literacy
Learning about Rivers around the world
Learning about Rivers around the world
What are other rivers like? How do they compare to our Waitara awa? What problems are the same or do they have different problems? What are the countries like around those rivers. We will start in France where the river Seine is taking centre stage at the Olympics.
Storm Drains
Storm Drains
Do you have storm drains near your house? Do we have any close to our school? Do we have drains at our school? Let's go and check them out and see what we can find.
Watch the video and then do the reading activities below:
Reading Activity - Witi Ihimaera, James K Baxter
Reading Activity - Alan Duff, Patricia Grace, Katherine Mansfield
Making connections between texts and real-life experiences.
Create
Create
Use CANVA and create a poster to highlight how people in your community can help to keep the water clean OR make a video informing whānau of what they can do to keep the water flowing into our river as clean as possible.
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