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Love Every Drop Education Resource YEARS 4-8: LEVELS 2-4 OF THE NZ CURRICULUM An education resource for educators and students who want to learn more about Wellington‘s water and help to restore and protect our streams and waterways. Published by: Wellington Water Written by: EFS Initiatives Illustrations: Bryandesign Ltd Cover photos: Wellington Water Date: 19/02/21 Editing and design: 19/02/21 ISBN (print) ISBN (online) tttttt 2 LOVE EVERY DROP: Wellington Water’s education resource Introduction/ He kupu whakataki This education resource aims to provide Wellington’s students, teachers and their communities with opportunities to connect with water sources in their environment and to grow their knowledge, skills and understandings about water, so that they can use water wisely and help resolve water-related environmental challenges. Love Every Drop is an integrated curriculum teaching resource with water as a context for teaching and learning. It has been developed for primary school students and teachers: (Years 2-8, levels 1-4 of the NZ Curriculum), but can be adapted for use at various levels. The resource is grounded in Environmental Education for Sustainability (EEfS) principles and incorporates concepts from te ao Māori (a Māori worldview). Teachers and students can choose activities from the resource materials provided, not following the resource from start to finish but utilising relevant material to match their inquiry, interests and needs. Learning materials are based on an integrated, inquiry learning process, with the student at the centre of their learning. Overlying conceptual understandings for the resource: • All water is a single, connected entity with its own life force • Clean, fresh water is an important part of our lives and we need it to survive • We can all help to protect and preserve the health of our water. Our water is part of who we are We connect with water in our environment, homes, schools and businesses. Water cleanses us, revives us and replenishes us. A world without water is a world without people. We can all play a part in protecting and conserving our water for the future. 3 Key concepts and structure of the resource part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 The water People and Water use Our water Act for water around us water and local future issues Act alongside Forming How water is Reflect on the wider personal used. How water is learning. community to connections to used. contribute to water. Investigating: Share findings. healthy water. - Drinking water Learn skills to Growing Look to the - Stormwater help address understandings water issues and future. and forming a - wastewater care for water in learning inquiry - Emergency their lives. about water. water Wellington Water Wellington Water manages the drinking water, stormwater, wastewater and emergency water for the Wellington Region. Looking after this water is a big job which involves many people and specialised equipment and infrastructure. The Hutt, Porirua, Upper Hutt, Wellington City, Greater Wellington Regional Council and South Wairarapa District Council own Wellington Water. Wellington Water looks after water in Wellington: now and into the future. Wellington’s drinking water is treated and cleaned to make it safe to drink. A lot of this precious, treated water is wasted. If we keep using this amount of water in the future, we may need new water sources, which would have a huge impact on the environment. Māori perspectives This resource incorporates several te ao Māori principles, alongside western thinking. Concepts from te ao Māori are woven through the resource, such as: mauri, whakapapa, mai uta ki tai (from mountains to sea) and kaitiakitanga. Activities also include links and concepts aligned with Te Marautanga o Aotearoa. For more information about Māori perspectives, we recommend involving local families, hapu and iwi with connections to your school in your inquiry and ensuring an approach which includes mana whenua perspectives and aspirations. Example unit plan: LOVE EVERY DROP To grow and develop students’ connections, knowledge, skills and understandings AIM OF RESOURCE about water and enable them to collaborate and contribute to protecting and enhancing water in the region NZ Curriculum: Science, Social sciences, English, Mathematics, Technology, Health. CURRICULUM AREAS Te Marautanga o Aotearoa: Pūtaio: Te Taiao; Tikanga-ā-Iwi Pāngarau, Hauora. • Build knowledge and understandings of fresh water, streams, drinking water, stormwater, wastewater and emergency water. OVERARCHING LEARNING OUTCOMES • To empower students to become confident, connected, resilient water citizens who are mindful of their water use, and have the skills and knowledge to use water wisely and be resilient in a water emergency. LEVELS 2 - 4 YEARS 4 - 8 Ecological sustainability, equity, respect, inquiry and curiosity, innovation, diversity, VALUES community and participation, aroha/love, kaitiakitanga, resilience. Thinking; Using language, symbols and text; Managing self; Relating to others; KEY COMPETENCIES Participating and contributing. Learning to learn, Cultural diversity, Treaty of Waitangi PRINCIPLES High expectations, Inclusion, Coherence Community engagement, Future focus 4 Part 1: The water around us Lesson title Inquiry stage/s NZ Curriculum links Key concepts Description • Introducing how we use water • Introducing water as a learning 1. Water 1. Immerse in Science: Planet context connections water Earth and beyond • The importance of fresh water and our connections • Students connect with water through to it. direct experiences. • Introducing the integrated inquiry 2. Learning 2. Water Integrated • Inquiry learning and cycle through inquiry wonderings curriculum areas developing inquiry questions. • Students form an inquiry plan. • Examining views and values of people 3. Water values and 1. Immerse in Social Sciences • Views and values about water about water understandings water • The water bodies of the • Local legends and beliefs 3. Splash around region. • Whakapapa and mauri. Part 2: People and water • How water is used around the • Integrated maths activity with 4. Water around Social Sciences: world 3. Splash around social studies comparison of figures about how the world • UN sustainable development water is used from NZ, Australia, Maths: Statistics water goals. India, the United Kingdom and Samoa. • Drinking water slideshow 5. Drinking water Science: Planet • How drinking water is 3. Splash around Earth and beyond collected and gets to our taps. • Drinking water Padlet page with links to relevant video, webpages and more • Introducing stormwater: what it is, Science: Living where it goes, exploring mauri of World. Nature water 6. Stormwater • Where stormwater comes 3. Splash around of Science: from, where it goes. • Stormwater slideshow and videos Investigating in Science. • The Water Cycle: Te Hurihanga Wai poster. Science: (Living • What wastewater is and • Introducing wastewater: what it is, where it goes where it goes. 7. The Wastewater World) 3. Splash around Nature of Science: • Brief summary of wastewater • Wastewater slideshow and videos: System treatment process. learning about wastewater, the Investigating in wastewater treatment process, Science blockages, how to avoid them. • Learning activity about how Social Science: households can plan for their water Social Studies • Introducing emergency water: needs during an emergency and how 8. Emergency what it is, why it is needed. communities will be supported 3. Splash around Nature of Science: water • Students form an emergency water Participating and plan with their families contributing • Google slideshow: Emergency water. Part 3: Water use and local issues • Reading the water meter at school • Finding patterns of water use and surveying school and home water 9. Measuring water 3. Splash around use use 4. Find your flow Maths: statistics • Amounts of water used by households and schools. • Reflecting on results and identifying how we can save water. Social Sciences: • Investigating water issues Social studies • Issues/challenges for water in • Padlet page for student inquiry 10. Water issues in 3. Splash around Wellington. Wellington 4. Find your flow English: Reading, • Unpacking an issue and exploring the listening and cause and effects of common water viewing issues. Part 4: Our water future • Looking to the future and what we can do to influence it. Choosing a 4. Find your flow Science: Nature of • Future water solutions and focus issue from the last activity, 11. Our water future 5. Reflect and Science, Material thinking about our water what impacts could these have in the share World. future. future? • Sustainable water use and innovative water efficient design. • Reflecting on which water • Water kaitiakitanga/ guardianship: Science: Nature issues influence your how can we also support kaitiaki w12. Water for our 5. Reflect and of Science: community • How people make decisions about communities share Participating and • Sharing findings with your fresh water and are helping water in Contributing community. the wider community. Part 5: Helping water in the environment Science: Nature of • Sharing and reflecting on findings, 13. Helping our • Making a difference to create action plan for water water 6. Act for water Science a positive water future. Technology • Example actions for helping water. 5 Integrated inquiry cycle This resource is based on an integrated inquiry learning cycle (see below). The cycle is a process for guiding student directed learning