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Check out some of these great websites to find out information about saving water and enjoy some fun games. You may want to use the information to add to our class page and classroom list or compare it to our brainstorming sheet or concept maps.

__[|AQUA conserve water]__ This great fun website includes video, a comic book, colouring pages and posters with water saving information that you can download. The focus is on an 8 year old child, Aqua, who notices the town water supply is very low and goes on a mission to do something about it in her own home. She helps her family look at ways they use water in the home and when it is being wasted. Aqua helps her family find many ways to conserve water at their house and therefore save the town's water supply. Maybe you could make a plan of what you would like to learn from this site.

[|Saving Water song] This short song about saving water won an Audience Choice Award in 2009. If you listen to the words you will hear some important reasons for saving water. It also mentions things we do with water. You may like to list some. The video clip that goes with it is clever, as it's made using shadows and very simple props. The song ends with a website to visit called 'Rain Bird' that has lots of extra information, including fun activities for kids such as a word search, crossword, colouring book and interesting water facts.

[|Heroes of Water Saving] 'The Heroes of Water saving' is a short animated video with animal heroes that discover ways they can help save water around the house. The heroes then travel the world to spread the message of water saving. See if you can list the ways they save water and try them in your house.

[|Help the Environment with EcoRilla] This short video shows us EcoRilla, a green gorilla who teaches school children how to save water and help the environment. EcoRilla stresses the importance of clean drinking water and why we shouldn't waste it. He tells us a number of ways you kids can save water in your own lives. You may already do some of these things at home, if not, you could try some of his ideas. You could compare these ideas with your original concept map and see what can be added. Be sure to help your family and friends try some of the ideas too.

[|Water Conservation] This is a very short video that shows why it is so important to turn taps off when not using the water, for example, when brushing your teeth. A small boy named Carl finds out what happens when water is wasted.

[|Kids Water Conservation] The 'Kids Water Conservation Corner' has lots of great tips to help us save water. It lists ten ways to save water indoors and thirteen ways to save water outdoors. See how many of these ways to save water your family do. Maybe you could get some new ideas to try at your house. Remember to tell your family of any new ways you learn and why it is so important for us not to waste water. You may include some of the tips in our class water saving ideas page.

[|Save Water] This is a fun game to play that teaches you reasons to save water, water saving actions you can take and places in a house and yard that you can use them in. It has an introductory video showing the main characters of the game, then offers you a mission to help a family use less water. You travel around the house to various rooms that have people using water and gives you a chance to help them use less water by playing various games. Each room has a game and some water facts to learn along the way. The site includes funny videos with water saving hints. Compare this with the classroom list of 'Water saving Actions.' = = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">[|The Water Family] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">This fun game gives you a chance to cut down a family's water use in their home and garden. You make up a family to play. To score points you need to use water wisely. The game is divided into many situations in a home where water is used, for example: cleaning teeth, washing the car, clothes washing, dishwashing, in the bathroom, in the garden and plant watering. The main aim is to learn ways to use water wisely. Have fun!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Eco Kids] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">EcoKids offers ways to conserve water around the house. By clicking on the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, laundry or yard & garden on the menu bar, you can find out a large range of facts about water. Each room in the house gives ideas for saving water in that area. There are also a number of water facts they you may not know. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You can even download and print out all of the water information tips given on this site.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|The Life of a Raindrop] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This short animated video from YouTube shows a simple view of what life is like for a raindrop. It includes things such as: forming clouds, raining down, where it falls and gets collected, how it is used on the earth by people or plants, how it evaporates and becomes a cloud again and the cycle continues. Remember to review what you find out. You can compare the new ideas with your concept map at the beginning of the unit.



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