14 Mar 2002 - Water research
Don't get too dizzy in our Swimbridge submarine...
Class 4 is currently considering WATER during Geography lessons.
Below are useful internet addresses to help individual research together with instructions for RIVERS/WATER RESEARCH
INTERNET SITES:
Try out the interactive water cycle and test your knowledge by answering simple questions at http://www.yorkshirewater.com./schools/home3.htm
Try out the water cycle game and much more at : http://www.anglianwater.co.uk/schools/w1.htm
Test your knowledge of world oceans at: http://www.anglianwater.co.uk/schools/w4.htm
Visit: http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/dryvilleall.html
for the interesting story about Dryville.This site include plenty of good links and worgs for your glossary.
RESEARCH NOTES:
Using the Water Project helper booklet to help you, produce a WATER PROJECT of at least 8 pages, using books, CD ROMS, the Internet etc. You can work with another person so long as you cooperate and work well and each produce your own work - although some (such as the computer work) could be shared. Final presentation is very important.
Chose at least 4 of these areas to study:
a. Find out about one major river disaster in Devon within living memory or a major river disaster in another country.
b. Discover how people in arid (hot, dry) countries, such as Israel, irrigate the land for agriculture.
c. Draw and describe the Water Cycle
d. Find out about water pollution - how it can be caused and how it can be prevented?
e. Find out how water companies provide piped water to our homes and factories. What happens to waste water? How important is it to conserve (save) water and how can we do it?
f. Plan a way to help a small rural Third World country provide water for agriculture, drinking and washing. Perhaps some of the Aid charities have ideas.
g. Find out how water can generate electricity - such as hydroelectric and tidal power schemes.
h. Research into inland water transport in Britain (rivers and canals) in the past and today. What commodities were / are transported? What advantages did / do rivers and canals have? How were the boats powered?
i. Think of all the leisure uses of water (e.g. swimming, water skiing, boating, fishing, picnicking etc.) Design a lake water park with all amenities. How will the different uses be accommodated so that some don't spoil the pleasure of others?
j. Describe a river's journey from source to the sea. Find out how springs are formed, how rivers form valleys, how waterfalls are formed, how rivers meander etc. Draw labelled diagrams and perhaps produce a crossword or word search of river valley words (such as tributary, estuary, erode etc.)
k. Carefully consider the dangers of rivers and lakes. Make up your own River Safety Code using bullet points. What safety features would you put along rivers and around lakes if you were responsible? Design a simple poster for 7 year olds showing the dangers, including some of your River Safety Code.
You will need the make a list of resources used - the Internet sites visited, books used etc. Your completed work will need a cover and simple list of contents together with a short introduction saying what your project is trying to show. Some of your work (at least one page) should be word-processed including a few downloaded pictures, which you have copied and pasted into your work; of course this work will need to be spell checked.
At the end you need to produce a glossary of words and their meanings, (such as tributary - a smaller river which joins a larger river; canal - a man made river built to transport goods etc.)
Throughout your work you will need to produce maps and colourful, labelled diagrams.
Below are useful internet addresses to help individual research together with instructions for RIVERS/WATER RESEARCH
INTERNET SITES:
Try out the interactive water cycle and test your knowledge by answering simple questions at http://www.yorkshirewater.com./schools/home3.htm
Try out the water cycle game and much more at : http://www.anglianwater.co.uk/schools/w1.htm
Test your knowledge of world oceans at: http://www.anglianwater.co.uk/schools/w4.htm
Visit: http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/dryvilleall.html
for the interesting story about Dryville.This site include plenty of good links and worgs for your glossary.
RESEARCH NOTES:
Using the Water Project helper booklet to help you, produce a WATER PROJECT of at least 8 pages, using books, CD ROMS, the Internet etc. You can work with another person so long as you cooperate and work well and each produce your own work - although some (such as the computer work) could be shared. Final presentation is very important.
Chose at least 4 of these areas to study:
a. Find out about one major river disaster in Devon within living memory or a major river disaster in another country.
b. Discover how people in arid (hot, dry) countries, such as Israel, irrigate the land for agriculture.
c. Draw and describe the Water Cycle
d. Find out about water pollution - how it can be caused and how it can be prevented?
e. Find out how water companies provide piped water to our homes and factories. What happens to waste water? How important is it to conserve (save) water and how can we do it?
f. Plan a way to help a small rural Third World country provide water for agriculture, drinking and washing. Perhaps some of the Aid charities have ideas.
g. Find out how water can generate electricity - such as hydroelectric and tidal power schemes.
h. Research into inland water transport in Britain (rivers and canals) in the past and today. What commodities were / are transported? What advantages did / do rivers and canals have? How were the boats powered?
i. Think of all the leisure uses of water (e.g. swimming, water skiing, boating, fishing, picnicking etc.) Design a lake water park with all amenities. How will the different uses be accommodated so that some don't spoil the pleasure of others?
j. Describe a river's journey from source to the sea. Find out how springs are formed, how rivers form valleys, how waterfalls are formed, how rivers meander etc. Draw labelled diagrams and perhaps produce a crossword or word search of river valley words (such as tributary, estuary, erode etc.)
k. Carefully consider the dangers of rivers and lakes. Make up your own River Safety Code using bullet points. What safety features would you put along rivers and around lakes if you were responsible? Design a simple poster for 7 year olds showing the dangers, including some of your River Safety Code.
You will need the make a list of resources used - the Internet sites visited, books used etc. Your completed work will need a cover and simple list of contents together with a short introduction saying what your project is trying to show. Some of your work (at least one page) should be word-processed including a few downloaded pictures, which you have copied and pasted into your work; of course this work will need to be spell checked.
At the end you need to produce a glossary of words and their meanings, (such as tributary - a smaller river which joins a larger river; canal - a man made river built to transport goods etc.)
Throughout your work you will need to produce maps and colourful, labelled diagrams.