Stanford County Junior School Water Project

Stanford County Junior School ~ Year 5
Water Project
Credit:Elizabeth Wakefield & Colleagues

LEARNING OUTCOME

SPECIFIC ACTIVITY

SCIENCE

Children will be able to understand the principles of evaporation, condensation and filtration.

Children will have learnt and understood the water cycle.
Children will be able to design their own experiment to clean water.

Children will understand the necessity of water for hygiene and drinking purposes.
Children to learn about filtration and evaporation.

Children to learn about food chains and food webs.
Children to carry out a scientific investigation into water and ice. To revise what makes a fair test.
Children to sort by materials and what is recyclable.

Children to learn that oil is less dense than water. To realize the devastation that oil brings to the environment.

Teacher to boil kettle and place mirror or tile near steam to enable children to see condensation.
Children to place water in a dish and place dish on window sill and record what happens over a number of days - evaporation.
children to revise water cycle and discuss how humans interfere with it.

Children to be given a sample of dirty water ( a mixture of earth/sand/water) and are asked to devise a way of making the water sample clean. Filtration/evaporation - other ideas they come up with. children to understand and carry out a fair test.
Discussion on how a clean supply of water is vital to life. Children to keep a diary of water usage over a week.

Children given dirty water and asked to find out a way to make it clean.

Children to investigate a variety of food chains.To understand the inter-relationships between different parts of the food chain.

to se ice balloons and watch what happens as they melt. To weigh and measure ice balloons. to add salt and dye to see what happens. To record results.

Children to investigate a bag of clean rubbish - to sort it by material and see what can be recycled.

Children to investigate ways of removing oil from water. To come up with own ideas.

GEOGRAPHY

Know that rivers have sources, channels, tributaries and mouths. That they receive water from a wide area and that most, eventually flow into a lake or sea. Know how rivers erode, transport and deposit materials, producing particular landscapes features e.g. valleys, waterfalls and ox-bow lakes.

Be able to name and locate some of the major rivers of the world.

Be aware of the importance of water to a wide variety of areas of life.

Know some of the causes and consequences of water pollution.

Write up about trip to Frog Firle farm - to consolidate terms to do with rivers - meanders, ox-bow lake, brackish, tidal, soil creep, etc.

Create a model 'landscape' from wire/ papier mache/ mod roc/ plasticine. Cover with sand. illustrate with watering can ('rain') how water always flows down into the 'sea' and that material (sand) is eroded and deposited by flowing water in particular ways.
Draw and label diagrams of same.
Observe some at Cuckmere Haven.

Locate major world rivers in atlases and identify sources, channels, tributaries and mouths.
Identify same features on aerial photos of rivers.

List uses of water, including transport, industry, tourism, wildlife, agriculture and health.

Discuss consequences of water shortage and/or pollution on each of these.
Discuss cases of water pollution.
Label and colour picture showing some of these.
Put into sequence story of pollution incident in 1988 (UNICEF).

In a group of 4 - mixed ability, mixed sex - to make up a game to encourage teachers to go to Frog Firle Farm with their children.

ENGLISH

Extend understanding of poetry as a form of literature.
Appreciate different styles and forms for poetry.
Use imagination and creative use of words.
Extend vocabulary.

Enjoy playing with words.

improve spelling, hand writing, presentation.

Focus - Poetry
Listen to a variety of different types of poems.

Write

Alliterative sentences
Rhyming couplets
Experiment with adjectives
Nonsense words
Syllables

Write

Haiku
Limericks
Acrostics etc.

Experiment with lay-out and presentation, produce poems about water and rivers using rich vocabulary and some of the learnt techniques.

MUSIC

Composition

Listening

Compose pieces for a full river performance - the life of a river.
design graphic scores for these in groups.
Add drama and story for full piece.
Let them put it together how they like it best.

Various water inspired music:
La Mere~Debussy, Rain~Gold, Native American nose flute, Bagpipes of Grimes.
Listen, appraise, consider choices of sound - why?
Compare differences in the bodies of water performed.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

To be able to load disc, load chosen aerial view and adapt screen - alter graphics- by addition of graphics e.g. add road, markers, etc.
To be able to interpret arial views and be able to match them to maps and vice versa.
Children to be able to use database to record information on various rivers, to create class data base.

Children to load disc and chose particular screen.
Children to mark on/over river etc. in a colour, using paint tools.

Children to be able to save and print screen.
To be able to create and add to a data base and interpret results.

DESIGN TECHNOLOGY

To design and make a water raising device to raise water from chair level to table level.
To investigate a number of simple mechanisms that can raise water from one level to another.
To have worked co-operatively in small groups to come up with a group design for a water raising device.

Children to continue with water raising device if they have not finished./
Children will have drawn a detailed plan.

Lesson 1: Children to discuss ways of raising water and reasons for wanting to do so.
To each make an individual design of a water raising device using existing materials available for design technology lesson.
Lesson 2: Children to get into groups of four and look at each others designs and come up with one group design. To collect the materials needed.
Lessons 3-5: Children to start building their water raising devices and test to see if design will work.
Lesson 6: children to look at all designs made and success and failures of designs and possibilities for improving designs.

Draw a detailed plan of some sort of environmentally friendly device e.g. a solar powered car, a house that use wind and solar power. etc.