Teaching And Home Schooling Ideas

Design a poster to save water. Have a chat about how we use water in the home and outside. Eg we drink water, wash clothes, wash pots, bath, shower, clean teeth, use water for cooking, wash car, water plants inside and out etc. Discuss ways to save water. Eg Don't have tap running when cleaning teeth, have a shower instead of a bath, fill up water bottles and keep in the fridge so not running tap lots of times, collect rain water in a container for gardening, share bath water. Design a poster to help save water. Make your images and wording stand out.

Skittles Erosion Experiment. You need 3 plastic cups, 3 skittle sweets and water. Fill 2 cups half full of water and leave 1 cup empty of water. Put one sweet in each cup. Swirl one cup round in circular movements for 15 seconds every 5 minutes for up to an hour. Observe any changes. Discuss what is happening to the sweets and how this relates to weathering and erosion of the coastline by the sea. What has happened to the sweets? Why is this happening? What effect does the water have on the sweet? What effect does the movement of the water have on the sweet? What has happened to the sweet without water?