At a glance
H2O is a three-visit project of 60 or 75 minutes for grades 1 to 9 about water, a resource we must take care of even on the blue planet: the water cycle, the Fraser River, then drinking water and wastewater.
Students describe where Earth’s water comes from and the stages of its cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff and infiltration), identify natural sources of fresh water and follow water all the way to the tap, then down the drain.
Earth, the blue planet, is covered with seas, oceans, lakes and rivers…
It seems nothing could ever run dry such an extraordinary natural resource as water.
And yet, over 3 workshops, we discover why it matters to take care of the little H2O molecule.
Come and soak up the knowledge!
How it runs:
Visit 1: The water cycle (60 or 75 minutes).
Visit 2: The Fraser River (60 or 75 minutes).
Visit 3: Drinking water and wastewater (60 or 75 minutes).
Learning goals (elementary)
- Describe where the water on Earth comes from.
- Describe the stages of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff and infiltration).
- Identify natural sources of fresh water (streams, lakes, rivers) and of salt water (seas, oceans).
- Test how air pressure acts on water (compression, displacement, rising temperature).
- Describe how drinking water is distributed and how wastewater is treated.
- Describe how people have changed their environment to get drinking water and treat wastewater.
- Describe how water quality affects the environment and people.
- Understand how underground pipes use gravity to carry water to the treatment plant.
- Locate natural sources of fresh water and of salt water.
- Show why the five Great Lakes matter to Canada and the United States.
- Define the words “source”, “mouth”, “upstream” and “downstream”.
- Understand how water filtration works.
- Compare the salinity zones of the Fraser River and map them.
- Put in order the steps of a method used to protect the banks of the Fraser River.
- Illustrate the density of water.
