Water teaching resources

With lessons for KS1, KS2 and KS3 classes, these resources get pupils thinking about the need for clean water as well as water usage in their school and their own lives. Using case studies and a photopack, pupils meet six-year-old Helena and learn how newly built water and sanitation facilities improved education in a school in Sierra Leone.

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To help your class explore the global issue of water, we've packaged resources covering:

  • Water use - KS1 and KS2 classes work to identify the essential and non-essential uses of water in the UK and in Sierra Leone and swer the question: 'How can we save water at home and at school?'
  • Clean water - KS1 and KS2 classes meet Helena from Sierra Leone and learn about why access to clean water is so important
  • Water & entrepreneurship - KS2 and KS3 classes learn how social enterprises are tackling the issues around water and research solutions of their own

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Submitted by ActionAid Blogs (not verified) on 16 August 2016
Resource Topic: 
Human rights
Water
Subject Tag: 
Citizenship
English
PSHE
Resource Country: 
Africa
Sierra Leone
Resource category: 
Free
Resource File: 

aa_schools_water_teaching_resources.zip

Resource hierarchy: 
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What's in my download?

To help your class explore the global issue of water, we've packaged resources covering:

  • Water use - KS1 and KS2 classes work to identify the essential and non-essential uses of water in the UK and in Sierra Leone and swer the question: 'How can we save water at home and at school?'
  • Clean water - KS1 and KS2 classes meet Helena from Sierra Leone and learn about why access to clean water is so important
  • Water & entrepreneurship - KS2 and KS3 classes learn how social enterprises are tackling the issues around water and research solutions of their own

View our most popular teaching resource on the subject of water