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Saving Fresh Water

  • Grade 2
  • Science
  • 1 min
  • British Columbia
  • BC2-SC-14

A lake of fresh water is refilled slowly by rain, one drop at a time, while a pipe carries its water to a tap that pours much faster, so the lake gets lower and lower. Turning off the tap while brushing your teeth and getting a dripping tap fixed lets the rain fill the lake back up, ending on the recap "Turn off taps and fix drips to save water."

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The question this lesson answers

How can we help save fresh water?

This lake holds fresh water, which is not salty.

Transcript

What the lesson says

How can we help save fresh water?

This lake holds fresh water, which is not salty.

Rain helps refill the lake, but slowly.

Pipes carry this water to our taps.

We use water from our taps every day.

We often use water faster than rain refills it.

So the lake gets lower and lower.

Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth.

A dripping tap wastes water, one drop at a time.

Ask a grown-up to fix a dripping tap.

Using less water helps the lake fill up again.

Turn off taps and fix drips to save water.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 2

Science, Earth science: water conservationBC2-SC-14

Previous: What a Watershed IsNext: The Water Cycle

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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