Houses & Buildings - PLUMBERIs 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
4. Investigation of the plumbing at the school. You are to create a siteplan of the school indicating all the taps, bubblers, and toilets.
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
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: Literacy 1.
Have a look at the video clip:
YouTube: Plato the Platypus Plumber (Part Time) - read by the author 2. Read: About the story
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:
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 2. View the following video: YouTube: Grey Water Recycling and Grey Water Treatment System (URL: https://youtu.be/2bSDlyakWHY )
3. What are your suggestions for an average household? Explain the processes involved and the benefits of greywater recycling. Develop a brochure as your marketing instrument to persuade "your client" to adopt greywater recycling.
Websites, Games & Apps Maths is Fun: Plumber Game Primary Middle Australian Curriculum General Capability: Information and Communication Technology Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy 1. Open up the Plumber Game. 2. How many points did you gain? Did the game give you any skills for Plumbing or was it just a game?
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