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**// Who wants to be a water warrior?!? You do I hear you say! Each of the following activities you complete will help you on your way to becoming a fellow water warrior. After all, we need to ensure future generations are as lucky as we are to have this amazing resource!!!! //**

Student Activity One: Wordles
Water is an awesome resource! It is vital to keep us alive and has many other uses! We all tend to take water for granted because we rarely think about where water comes from and just how many uses it has in our lives! It is time to turn our thinking around and begin our journey to become water warriors!

Students, click on the above link to visit the Wordle website to create your own masterpiece! Use the following inquiry questions to generate your own Wordle:


 * Who/what uses water?
 * Where does water come from?
 * What do we use water for?

Note: Use each question for a different Wordle.

Unsure of what a wordle is? Use the sample created by a fellow water warrior below as a guide.
 * Student Sample: **

This Wordle was created using the inquiry question: What do we use water for? media type="custom" key="7162225" @http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2556737/Water_Uses

Student Activity Two: Bubbl.us
Now that you have thought of who/what uses water, where water comes from and what do we use water for, it is time to start thinking about how we can reduce the amount of water we are currently using. Using the ideas that you brainstormed in your Wordle in activity one, you are now going to create your own Bubbl.us chart. Using the inquiry question 'What do we use water for?', we are going to come up with a water conserving idea for as many of the uses of water that you like. For example: We use water for showering, so a water conserving idea may be - turn off the tap when shampooing your hair. Click on the link to Bubbl.us to create your own mind map.

Unsure of what a Bubbl.us should look like? Use the sample created by a fellow water warrior below as a guide.
 * Student Sample: **

media type="custom" key="7165773" @http://www.bubbl.us/edit?welcome-user-rachelmills88

** Student Activity Three: Blogger.com **
Now that you have almost completed your training to become a water warrior, it is time to put all your new found thinking and great ideas together and share your water conservation ideas with everyone!!! By clicking on the link to our virtual classroom's blog site below, you can add your tips to the blog so that everyone can share in them. By sharing our knowledge and ideas with the wider community, the chances of more people applying water conservation practices around their own home will increase!! Sharing tips on a blog also means that everyone has the opportunity to comment on your tips and discussion can occur! Through these discussions, tips can be fine tuned so that we can create the best water conserving tips possible!

When creating your tips think about the following things:
 * Is this a sensible idea?
 * Is it likely that people will be able to practice this water conservation tip?
 * Where is water consumed/used the most around the house?
 * What do we use the most water for?
 * Are there activities that we are using too much water for?

So what are you waiting for? Click on the picture below to start blogging your water conservation tips today!!!

In addition, you may want to create your own water warrior blog space. www.blogger.com allows you the opportunity to create your own! Don't forget to add our virtual classroom so we can follow your blog posts!

Student Sample: Click the link to the virtual classroom blog site to see a sample of students water conserving tips involving showering and also watering the garden. Once on the blog site, click on 'comments' to see the tips.

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Created by: Rachel Mills 11800257, ED3441