Cool Questions and Activities About Bottled Water

Cool Questions and Activities About Bottled Water

Lesson 2 of 11 in this unit

  • Primary
  • Year 3 - 4
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Sustainability
  • Water
  • ...

Lesson summary

Through class discussion, independent art and literacy exercises students are asked to think about the environmental and health consequences of water choices and decide on their preference for accessing drinking water.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • use information to make choices about drinking water
  • consider personal health issues concerning consumption of water
  • information about the environmental impact of purchased bottled water when considering water choices.

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Curriculum mapping

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 3 Science:

  • Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions (ACSHE051)

Year 3 English:

  • Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print, and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1682)

Year 3 Mathematics:

  • Recognise, model, represent and order numbers to at least 10 000 (ACMNA052)

Year 4 Science:

  • Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions (ACSHE062)

Year 4 English:

  • Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts containing key information and supporting details for a widening range of audiences, demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features (ACELY1694)

Year 4 Mathematics:

  • Recognise, represent and order numbers to at least tens of thousands (ACMNA072)

Syllabus outcomes: ST2-11LWEN2-2AMA2‑1WM, MA2‑2WM, MA2‑3WM, MA2‑4NA.

Indoor or outdoor activity: Indoor

Time required: 20 mins

Learning areas addressed: English, Geography, Health and physical education

Level of teacher scaffolding: Lead students in a discussion around bottled water.

Homework and extension opportunities: This activity includes opportunities for extension.

Resources required

  • Internet access
  • Art and writing materials
  • An example of purchase bottled water and a reusable drinking bottle.

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