“M” writes:
For our latest work on our topic on water management A and I went on the Water Aid website to collect information about one place where Water Aid are working - I picked Madagascar.
Water Aid have put wells close to homes, so women don’t have to walk so far for water, and the [...]
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Water Aid at Work
Posted in Environmental Science, Language Arts, World Studies on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Water, water, everywhere…
Posted in Environmental Science, World Studies on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink”
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”)
So goes the cry of the mariner whose ship is adrift on a “painted ocean”, with not a breath of wind.
Today we watched another programme in the series “Water Water” on Teacher’s TV:
http://www.teachers.tv/video/31909
We learned [...]
Water Management Issues
Posted in Environmental Science, Language Arts, World Studies on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In this week’s edition of First News
http://www.firstnews.co.uk/
we have been reading about World Water Day, which was held on 22nd March. The article prompted us to think about issues relating to water and how water is managed throughout the world.
We watched a super documentary called Water Water : Man Vs Water, produced by the Discovery Channel [...]