Water Wise

How water wise are you??

What do you use fresh water for? What about seawater?

Interview with a glass of water

1. Can you really talk to water?

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2. What do you think the author is trying to get his readers to understand?

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�3. Let's read this story: Interview with a glass of water���

Finding out

1. ‘I’m always in demand and I get to do amazing things all over the world’.
1. What does ‘in demand’ mean?

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2. What are the three states of matter?

1. b. c.

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3. What state is water in the following?

1. Dirty bath water
2. Snow
3. Cloud
4. Steam
5. Ice

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4. What is the function of your kidneys?

5. How does water help your kidneys?

Time to watch and listen!

Post your ideas here!

Ideas from what you’ve read about this week!

1. Read/watch/listen to the text set
2. You have four ‘post-its’ (for padlet, password ‘waterwise’)
3. Each person writes one main idea on each of their 4 ‘post-it’s
4. Share the ‘post-its’ from all group members, shuffle, and deal out again

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1. Each person reads one ‘post-it’ out in turn, and all repeated ideas are grouped into one.
2. The group negotiates and reaches consensus about the:

- 3 ‘vital ‘ideas

- 4 ‘very important’

- Rest ‘important’

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The Negotiation Game (Aaron Wilson, Woolf Fisher Research Centre)

Create and share

Create an eye catching poster that promotes the main ideas from the video you just watched. These will be used to help with movies we will make for the Te Oro exhibition.

Poster layout ideas