You can contact LEARNZ, part of CORE Education, at:
Postal Address:
PO Box 13 678,
Christchurch 8141,
New Zealand
Activities
These activities test domain knowledge from the background pages and assist students to develop higher levels of inquiry.
Interactives
Activity 1 - Water as a Precious Resource
Activity 2 - People and Water
Activity 3 - The Water Cycle
Activity 4- Water Treatment
Activity 5 - Wastewater
Activity 6 - Stormwater
Activity 7 - Water Use
Activity 8 - Conserving Water
The interactives play in any web browser supporting Flash or HTML-5, while iPad/iPhone and Android users are prompted to download and install the free Articulate Mobile Player.
Other
These activities relate to the Water and People and the background pages. As well as a PDF, a Word document has been provided for each one so they can be adapted to suit individual students.
- Diaries and journals - keep your own field trip diary - Word (13k) | PDF (240k) | Google Doc.
- Web Quest. This task helps students become familiar with a LEARNZ field trip website and its functions. It also assists students with their inquiry skills, particularly information gathering and asking good questions. Students need to have an internet connection and their class login - Word (227k) | PDF (490k) | Google Doc.
- Field Trip Number Challenge - Word (31k) | PDF (130k)
- Curating a LEARNZ field trip (secondary school activity) - Word (24k) | PDF (351k)
Post field trip activity
- How much have I learnt? - Word (28k) | PDF (246k) | Google Doc.