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Water |
Catching and saving water |
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Create solutions that save water (e.g. putting brick in toilet cistern, ways of saving water in the garden). |
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Water |
Playing in water |
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Listen to a story of the journey of water: from a drop to the ocean. |
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Water |
The properties of water and the water cycle |
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Listen to a story about the water cycle (the story of a drop of water traveling through the sea, up into the clouds, falling on the earth, absorbed by soil, into aquifers etc) |
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Water |
Catching and saving water |
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Create rainwater catchment systems. |
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Water |
Water for Life |
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Learn about animals that live in water. |
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Water |
Water for Life |
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Learn that water is essential for all plants and animals to live (including humans). |
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Water |
Playing in water |
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Paint with watercolors on wet paper, mixing colors as they spread into one another. |
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Water |
Playing in water |
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Read some of the sayings from the Tao Te Ching that describe water's power - how it flows around obstacles, wears down rocks etc. Discuss in what ways water is strong, even though it seems weak, and in which ways we are sometimes like water. |
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Water |
Water for Life |
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Imagine there is no rain for a whole year, what would happen to the earth to people, to animals? Imagine being a tree - and that you are calling to the sky for the clouds to come and rain; Imagine then how you would feel when the rain begins after such a long time. |
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Water |
Playing in water |
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Add some soil to water - and shake it up - use it as a metaphor to discuss how sometimes our mind gets full of thoughts and muddy or cloudy - and then when we are peaceful, it settles and becomes clear and pure again. |
