Sit back, relax and

enjoy the show.

A Room 4 Production

What you need to know…Sit up please and listen carefully.

No cell phones on please.No loud music at school.

Do the ‘T’ sign if you need to go to the toilet. We will help you find it.

No biting or hitting.Please put your hand up if you have a

question.Make sure you are well and healthy and

your brain is working well.

The first part of Inquiry is called Immersion

Miss Robertson got our brains hooked into

water thinking.

Water Discovery Walk

We went for a walk around the school and

discovered all the places where there is

water.

Water Photos

We have all the photos from our water walk.

Come and have a water tour with Maggie and Rhiannon.

We put our ideas on paper and wrote where we thought water came

from.

Where does water come from?

Sharing our ideas about what we first thought

Cordell and Ella will come and share their ideas with you.

We looked at many pictures about water.

This really got our brains thinking.

We tried some experiments to do with water.

We didn’t even blow up the classroom!

Experiment Number One

Take a sip of your water.

Tell the person next to you how old your water is.

Did you know your water has been around for

millions of years?It just gets used over

and over again.

Lucky it gets cleaned after it goes down the toilet!

We talked about where our water comes from at home.

Miss Robertson shared with us that her water came from a bore in the ground.

Sandra’s came from the rain on the roof.

Cordell’s farm was on a water scheme.

Where does yours come

from?Tell the person next to

you.

We wrote down everything we could think of

that uses water.

You should listen to them all.

Can you think of any different

ones?

Experiment Number 2

Making the water cycle

Come and stand around the back desk group with us.

We were really starting to wonder about where it all began and how we

got our water in Tapanui.

We started looking at the Water Cycle.

We even watched a video off

You Tube about the water cycle.

Watch and learn.

What are the main parts of the water cycle?

I will give you a piece of the water cycle can you come and put in in

the right place?

The Water Cycle

Miss Robertson had us act out parts of the

water cycle in groups of 3.

Now it is your turn…

Remember to include the four main parts to the water cycle.

We went on a trip to Whiskey Gully to find out where our water came

from.

We made a collage to explain how

we get the water in Tapanui.

We had so much information!

We had to put it somewhere…

We made a wall display to show all of our learning.

We sorted all of the information out.

Go and take a look.

Finding OutIs the next stage of the

Inquiry

We now had many questions that we wanted to know the

answer to and find out about.

We had to really think hard about where we

would get the answers from.

The questions we wanted to find out

about.Why does Africa not have

clean water?

Why does it rise into the sky?

Why does it come from Whiskey Gully?

Why does it evaporate?

How do we get water?

Why does it go up the mountain?

How do they get the fish out of the pipe?

Why don’t some people get much water?

How do we get it from the river?

Why does it go in a cycle?

Why is there different types of water?

Why does it go through the pipes?

Sorting Out is the next stage in

the Inquiry Process.

We had to sort out all of our new

learning.

We put all of our questions up on the wire so we could

look back at them.

Going Further

We really were interested in how

Africa was short of water and we

wanted to help out.

It shocked us when we found out that one in six people struggle to get

clean water in the world.

It takes an average African 5 hours to walk to a clean

water supply.

We rang World Vision to find out why we don’t ship our nice water to

Africa?

A really nice lady rang us back at school and told us that the

reason we do not ship our water to Africa is because it is too far

and too expensive. She told us that they are building

wells in communities so you don’t need to send water to

them.

So What Now?

This is the last part of the Inquiry process.

What will we do with all this new information?

We came up with many ideas.

We could…

Make signs about not wasting water.

It is precious lots of other people need it to survive.

Print photos to grab peoples attention.

Make posters.Have a water school.

Don’t waste water!

We found out some facts to back up what we were saying.

Did you Know?

Our body is made up of two thirds water.

Did you know?

A lot of water can be saved if you water plants using a

watering can.

Did you know?

If clean water is available from a tap please use it instead of

buying bottled water.

It is a waste of energy!

Did you know?

A washing machine uses 60 litres per load.

So only use it when you need to.

Did you know?

A bath uses 80 litres of water and a shower uses only 30

litres.

I know which one I would use more often!

Did you know?

How many litres do you think the toilet uses every time

you flush?

Tell the person next to you?

10 whole litres

We have a bucket of water from the toilet to share with

you.

Think twice before you flush!

Please try not to leave the tap running at home when you are

brushing your teeth.

If you leave the plug in and the tap running when you brush, you

will be amazed with how much water you will be wasting.

Clean the car using a bucket it will only use about 30 litres.

If you use the hose it will use 6 times as much water.

FACT SHEET

We have made a fact sheet for you to take home and put on

your fridge.

We are going to share the information with you.

PLEASE SAVE WATER!

Thank you for attending our water school.

You have been very good students.