This interactive programme encourages school children to explore the fascinating world of freshwater habitats and to develop an understanding of all things “wet and wild”.
Compromising of five lessons to be taught over the course of a week, it discusses the importance of water in our everyday lives: What it is, where it comes from and how we can conserve and protect it.
This hands-on and highly interactive programme encourages school children to explore the fascinating world of freshwater habitats and to develop an understanding of all things “wet and wild”. Using a specially designed, graphically engaging workbook, the curriculum examines the key themes of water protection and conservation, ensuring that the students have an understanding of their own responsibilities when it comes to this precious resource.
These workbooks comprise five lessons to be taught over the course of a week. The lessons discuss the importance of water in our everyday lives: What it is, where it comes from and how we can conserve and protect it. Each lesson contains simple experiments and activities. In addition to the workbooks, a “Lab in a box” has also been created, which contains all of the equipment required to carry out the different experiments.
Certain elements of the curriculum are utilised in the “World of Water Workshop”, run by the research staff of the National Source Protection Project in association with “Discover Primary Science”. In this interactive workshop the students examine the various types of creepy crawlies that live in freshwater habitats. They also learn how they can measure water quality by looking at the creatures that live in a particular stretch of water.