Year 2 are water protectors!

During Science Week, we not only had fun exploring flight, making and testing our planes, gliders and helicopters like engineers, learned about biodiversity and microhabitats during our online farming event but also learned about the water cycle as part of our current English text – We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade.

The Year 2s have explored the effect of oil pollution in the river in the text and how important water is to all living things. They could also bring some of their own real-life experiences from when many homes, businesses and schools like ours in Launceston were recently without water for some time. The children were able to discuss how this felt and how difficult things were, which we usually take for granted. They had also been surprised about how many bottles of water they had needed during that time - really emphasising how important water is.

They discovered the impact that pollution can have on the water cycle, affecting water quality, changing the evaporation and precipitation processes, not to mention introducing harmful things into ecosystems. The children were able to talk about and describe each of the stages of the water cycle and learned lots of new scientific vocabulary along with some surprising facts. A class favourite was that the water we drink today is the same water dinosaurs drank, just recycled millions of times!

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