ELP Water Warriors – Tangalooma EcoMarines

Water Warriors

Help Conserve Water

The Urban Utilities Water Warriors Flash Mob challenge celebrates World Water Day on Wednesday March 22nd. It is all about appreciating water and raising awareness of the 2 billion people world-wide living without access to safe water.

For more information visit: www.worldwaterday.org/learn

This challenge is sponsored by our partners at Urban Utilities and is for Early Learning Centres in Brisbane City, Ipswich and Scenic Rim Councils. Centres outside these areas can participate and will receive a different prize if chosen as the winners!

The Urban Utilities Water Warriors Flash Mob challenge is a wonderful opportunity to educate younger children about saving this precious resource in entertaining and easy to understand ways.

Early Years Learning Framework

Learning Outcomes:

2.1 – Children develop a sense of belonging to groups and communities

4.1 – Children develop dispositions for learning

5.1 – Children interact verbally and non-verbally with others for a range of purposes

Principles:

5. Ongoing learning and reflective practice

Practices:

2. Responsiveness to children

CHALLENGE: Water Warriors Flash Mob

EQUIPMENT:

Projector screen to show music video / Printed game cards / Video camera

TIME NEEDED:

30 minutes for Step 1 and Step 2
Up to 1 hour class session for Step 3

Step 1

Play the Water Warriors Song for your children using the link below. This song is all about how we can reduce water wastage and describes the only 3 things that should be flushed down the toilet – poo, pee and paper.

You can also get your kids to learn to sing the song – the lyrics are downloadable via the button below.

Step 2

Play the ‘To Flush or Not To Flush” game with your class! This game is flexible but basically involves the teacher holding up household items or items that frequently get flushed down the toilet. Children can then guess if they can or cannot flush the items and why.

You can use items around your classroom or bring in some items from home!

Or you can download these game cards and hold those up instead. The children can have the option to place the cards into the toilet or the rubbish bin. Or, if you prefer an online interactive option, use the ‘What’s a No3?” game which can be played along with your children if you have access to a screen/projector.

It is important to get children to understand why only the 3 p’s can be flushed down the toilet. You can also use the Urban Utilities ‘Waterwise Worksheet’ to help children understand why saving water is necessary.

Step 3

It’s time to put together a Flash Mob or a dance music video for the Water Warriors Song! Teach your children the dance moves and practice using the Water Warriors song.

Step 4

Film your flash mob or music video and submit it to us to go in the draw to win a Water Warriors incursion and show thanks to Urban Utilities (for centres within Brisbane City, Scenic Rim, Lockyer Valley and Ipswich areas)
If your centre is outside these regions, you will receive a visit and presentation from the EcoMarines team AND a water-saving prize pack for your centre.

Step 5: SUBMIT!

As it can be difficult to send a large video file directly via our website, we advise that you send the video directly to our team through email:

If your video is too large, try these options:

Use Wetransfer – a safe, one off file sharing website
You can send the video directly to dominika@ecomarines.org
Use the EcoMarines Google Drive to upload your video into: click Here to access

Submissions are due April 3rd 2023 if you want to go in the draw to win the prize!

Activities about Water Conservation

Protect our Waterways Activity

Use this activity to show your children how humans can damage waterways and what we can do to help.

This activity involves a large glass bowl or container filled with water. The premise is to have your children watch you tell a story about your local water way. Start with telling children about your local creek, bay area, lake or river. Then, ask children to guess what type of animals live there. Start adding in rubbish, dirt, chemicals (such as dishwashing liquid) or others inside the water bowl and ask children what they think is happening to the water.

Children should be able to distinguish that when we pollute our waterways, the water becomes unsuitable for the animals that live there. Make sure that you end this activity on a positive note – discuss how your community can ensure waterways are kept clean and healthy!

Outdoor Classroom Day

This year (2021), 0utdoor Classroom Day is on 20th May!

Outdoor Classroom Day is all about teaching children in environments other than inside!

Taking children outside improves their wellbeing, engages them with nature, creates a fun and safe learning environment and more. You can sign-up your centre to take part in this day through the website.

The Outdoor Classroom Day website also provides many resources that can help educators to make the most of outdoor learning.

Make a Water Wall

A water wall is used to collect rainwater in a fun way to use for your centre's gardens or plants.

A water wall can be made by many recycled materials such as pipes, containers, old toys and more. You can have your children pick which materials would work best for rain water to flow through and then end up in buckets or containers on the ground.

You will need a flat wall, fence or structure and a way to attach these materials onto the wall. You can be as creative as you want!

It is important to teach your children about why recycling and re-using water is important!