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Water: Teacher Resources

Year 7 Water Resources

Teacher Resources

Individuals and Societies by Hirsch, Sally & Triller, Thomas
ISBN: 9781906345990

Publication Date: 2014-12-26

Looks at Water as a source of Conflict with student activity, pp. 40-43.
Our Healthy Waterways by Rushton, Sharon
Call Number: 333.91 RUS

ISBN: 9781863667807

Publication Date: 2005

Student activities to do with water from the perspective of Geography. Activities seem geared towards upper primary, so might be suitable for introductory tasks or differentiation.
Geography Focus 1 by van Zuylen, Sue et al
Call Number: 910 VAN

ISBN: 9780733977145

Publication Date: 2007

See chapter 11: "Access to Fresh Water".
Includes: groundwater, groundwater contamination, water tables, water and health, Aral Sea disaster, dam-building.
Comes with CD.
Geography Focus 2 by van ZUylen, Sue et al
Call Number: 910 GEO

ISBN: 9780733977152

Publication Date: 2007

Chapter 8: Land and Water Management. Australian focused, including section on Murray-Darling, Snowy Hydro, Urban waste water and water recycling.

Comes with CD
CSIRO textbook and workbook: Water by Prosser, Ian P
Call Number: 333.91 WAT

Publication Date: 2016

These resources are quite advanced, and target literacy in science. May be suitable for teacher background knowledge, extension or targeted literacy development. The workbook has a number of activities.

Teacher Resources

Big Ideas: Humanities 1 by Saldais, Maggy & Easton, Mark
Call Number: 001.3 OXF

ISBN: 9780195563146

Publication Date: 2009

See CH 8: "How do we sustain resources".

Comes with CD
SOSE Alive 4 by Farrar, Peter et al
Call Number: 994 JAC

ISBN: 9780731402526

Publication Date: 2005

See Chapter 6 "Water". Focus on the Australian context.
Includes Murray-Darling, Ground water, river systems, water and agriculture.
Pearson Geography 8 by Kleeman, G et al
Call Number: 910PEA

ISBN: 9781442553774

Publication Date: 2014

Ch 9 - Riverine Landforms. Includes Case Study on Bow River.
Pearson Geography 10 by Kleeman, G et al
Call Number: 910 PEA

ISBN: 9781442553903

Publication Date: 2015

Chapter 5 "Inland Water". Includes water health, case studies of Great Artesian Basin, Pangani River Basin and Murray Valley National Park.
Oxford Big Ideas 7 by Easton, Mark
Call Number: 910 OXF

ISBN: 9780195521931

Publication Date: 2013

Unit 1: Water as a Resource. Includes: water as environmental resource, valuing and managing water, floods, water scarcity.
Skills in Geography: Australian Curriculum by Grant Kleeman
Call Number: 910 CAM

ISBN: 9781107636088

Publication Date: 2014-01-02

PP. 93-94 contains geography skills around graph, map and chart reading on the subject of water and water scarcity.