Lesson+6


 * || **Strands:** Physical, Personal, Social learning and Discipline-based learning.
 * Domains:** Science and English, Interpersonal development and Personal learning.
 * Dimensions:** Reading, Writing, Speaking and listening. Science knowledge and understanding. Science at work. ||
 * **LESSON 6 : ** ** Collect water, keep plants alive! ** || **LEARNING FOCUS –** Creating ways to collect water at the plant. The collection of water is important because of the drought. ||
 * Matthew Watkins || **OBJECTIVE(S) –** Children express ideas through art of the way they might collect water at the plant so that the plants don’t die. ||

Q: Who can think of ways we store water? Q: How do we get water to drink here at school? Q: Where does the water come from?
 * **TIMING** || **LEARNING ACTIVITIES** || **TEACHING ACTIVITY** || **RESOURCES** ||
 * Introduction || Children come to the floor awaiting the activity. || Teacher gets the children together to explain the activity.

Set the scene. Our garden has lots of trees, unfortunately we are on water restrictions and we cant water the trees, As we know from our last experiment, trees need water to be able to survive. Q: What are some ways that we can collect water to put on the trees? Q: How are we going to get it from the storage to the plant? || Art room Paint Paper || Q: How could we collect water at each of the plants?
 * Activity || Children wait ways to collect water at the plant. || What about if we found a way to collect water at the plant its self?

We are going to go to the art room now and we are going to paint ways we could collect water at the plant. ||  ||
 * Conclusion || Sharing time, Children can share what they have painted. || Get the children to share their pictures with the class and explain how they are able to collect water at the plant. Let them be creative, they don’t have to be plausible options. ||  ||

This activity can lead into construction. Where there are some good ideas the children could build them and use them in real world applications. The children could then use the pictures to show other children how they could keep the plants at school alive.