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Water conservation - concept cartoon
Water consumption
This activity focuses on the link between the UK’s current water usage and the predicted increase expected in the future. Looking at a water board website, students think about how the website is set up and the formulae that are being used. They then work in groups to...
This Best Evidence Science Teaching topic looks at the key concept of the water cycle. The resource includes diagnostic questions and response activities support students in being able to:
...Water cycle activity
In this STEM activity pupils will perform an experiment to investigate how rain falls from clouds. The activity asks pupils to spray shaving foam on top of a glass of water to create a ‘cloud’, before adding food colouring and watching as the cloud fills up, producing ‘rain’. Pupils will then have the opportunity...
Water Cycle Processes
These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:
- Identify more than one location of evaporation
- Explain the formation of clouds.
- Describe where groundwater is found.
- Predict the permeability of a rock based on...
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Water engineer
This video introduces Nariba, a graduate water engineer for engineering company Halcrow. Nariba performs assessments for construction projects, focusing on flood risk management. Her work includes water management, drainage, flooding, water quality issues, flood risk management and flood defences.
She...
Water Engineering and Sustainability
This resource pack can be used to highlight issues such as global water scarcity, the challenges people face when sourcing water and maintaining a water supply in developing countries and the role of the engineers in solving these problems.
Following a quick quiz, a presentation introduces the scale of local...
Water everywhere - working wall
This resource gives a teacher the materials to be able to create a working wall on the topic of water which they can build and add to over a series of lessons.
The idea behind the working wall is that the resources are used to create a display which develops over a period of time as pupils undertake...
Water flow
This resource is part of a collection of Nuffield Maths resources exploring Algebra. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in GCE A level.
Here, students use linear and quadratic functions to model water flow data and calculate percentage errors.