Children's Water Festival
Chatham Kent
Protecting our Drinking Water
Overview
Students will be encouraged
to investigate the source of groundwater, how it gets there and how it is extracted for our use.
Using a model aquifer, they will learn how pollutants affect our groundwater and how pollution
can be prevented.
Curriculum Link
Canada and World Connections, Grade 4 (Canada’s Provinces, Territories, and Regions)
Identify Ontario’s major natural resources and their uses and management (S.E)
Life Systems, Grade 4 (Habitats and Communities)
Identify various factors (e.g. availability of water)that affect plants and animals in a specific habitat (S.E)
Earth and Space Systems, Grade 4 (Rocks and Minerals)
Determine the advantages and disadvantages of human alteration of the landscape (S.E)
Earth and Space Systems, Grade 3 (Soils in the Environment)
Describe the various components found within a variety of soil samples (S.E.)
Describe ways in which the components of various soils provide shelter and/or nutrients for living
things (S.E.)
Matter and Energy, Grade 3 (Forces Causing Movement)
Explain how forces cause movement through direct contact or interaction at a distance (S.E)
Describe how different forces can cause objects to start, stop, or change direction (S.E)