Integration

- Students can play fruit salad but instead students can be given one of four different types of freshwater or saltwater animals, instead of different names of fruit - Students play octopus where students try to cross the sea and who ever gets tagged goes into the sea in the middle and becomes an octopus - Students create, as a class, a model of a water environment, using different materials they can create the animals that live there, the uses humans have for that environment, no litter signs etc. - Students make a papier-mâché model of a hum and stick pictures all over it of the ways that humans use water - Students create a classroom book about the different things they have learnt in this unit, every student is given a topic or chooses a topic and they write a few sentences and illustrate their page and these are all joined together to make a book. - Students research a topic in this unit and present a small talk to the class about their chosen topic. - Students learn the different names of water environments in another language other than English. - Students learn water animals in another language other than English. - Students try and keep a record of the times they use water during the day and work out how much water they think they use in a day/week/year etc. - Students time their showers and add up the time they spend in the shower over the week, then they try and reduce this each week and keep a tally of their times. - Students test different water samples to find out if the water is freshwater or saltwater. - Students create a water cycling program in their class/school, to help prevent water wastage, they could decide what they think should be done with water that is saved. - Students create a slide show on the computer, showing ways that humans use water, different water environments, ways of protecting our water environments etc. - Students use the internet to research some of the above topics that could be used for a slideshow; they could also use the internet to download pictures for their slideshow.
 * Areas for Possible Integration: **
 * Health and P.E **
 * The Arts **
 * English **
 * L.O.T.E **
 * Mathematics **
 * Science **
 * ICT **