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Is your school Water Wise?

Primary Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

1. Look at the following Water Wise website

2. What are the current water rules at your school? Are they any?

3. After reading the Water Wise website, you need to investigate

When the sprinters are used at the school and how much water they use per minute.
The number of plants and how they are watered [remember plants cool down an environment so there might be a balance here with the electricity bill]
Are there any trees to close to water pipes? Has the school in the past had problems with blocked drains?
The number and size of water tanks. What is this water used for?
The size of the school's roof. Calculate how much water comes off the school's roof with 5 mm of rain
If the school recycles it's water - uses it's greywater. Why? Why not?

4. Investigation of the plumbing at the school. You are to create a siteplan of the school indicating all the taps, bubblers, and toilets.

restroom

On your siteplan, indicate which taps, bubblers or toilets are leaking or dripping. For the taps and bubblers, place an empty ice-cream container [or something similar] under the drip and calculate the amount of water wasted each hour. Combine all your findings and show how much water is wasted

Per day
Per week
Per term
Per year

What is the cost to the school for this wastage? [Calculate from the amount of water used per quarter and the cost per litre].

5. Present your findings to the School's Executive staff. What are your recommendations?

6. Work out what water rules should be followed at your school and introduce these new rules to the whole school at an assembly using a Prezi presentation.

7. Look at your water consumption at home. Would the rules be different here? Why? Why not?

Plato the Platypus Plumber (part-time): Goes ICT!

Primary Middle

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Information and Communication Technology Capability
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

1. Have a look at the video clip: YouTube: Plato the Platypus Plumber (Part Time) - read by the author
(URL: https://youtu.be/t2zaKbgauGM ) Video

2. Read: About the story Reading

Plato Platypus

3. Then search through the following ideas by Anna Bartlett (PDF, for Teachers but you can use them!), and, decide on one activity using the following eTools:

Go!Animate - making videos (Free but must register)

Storybird - collaborative storytelling (Free)

Pencil - creating cartoons (Free)

Synfig - creating cartoons - more complex (Free)

Voki - talking Avatars (Free)

Voki

Glogster - create a poster (Free)

4. Share with a partner why you chose this eLearning tool and the results. After your pairing share, share with the rest of the class.

Greywater recycling: What is it?

Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Information and Communication Technology Capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

1. Water is a precious commodity in Australia. As a plumber, you will need to know a lot about this topic of greywater and recycling.

You are to investigate greywater and its uses from the following resources

Greywater Treatment	Australian Government: Greywater - this site has lots of linked resources
ABC Splash - Using greywater in the garden	Choice: A guide to greywater systems