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General information
Q. What is the Water Explorer programme?
A. Water Explorer is a fun, inspiring and educational programme that empowers thousands of students across the world to lead action on water issues for their schools/groups and communities.
Q. What benefits do the students and my school/group get from taking part?
There are many benefits from taking part in Water Explorer:
Q. How can my school/group get involved?
A. To get started, download the Challenge Toolkit and Resource pack. Here you will find all the details of the Challenges for each Mission area, along with supporting resources.
Q. What equipment do I need?
A. Most Challenges do not require any specialist equipment. If any other equipment is needed, the teachers’ instructions will say this.
Creating a team
Q. How many people are needed for a team of Water Explorers?
A. There is no minimum or maximum number for your Water Explorer team, and we are keen that you involve as many students as want to get involved and as your resources allow. We would recommend a good team size being 10-15 students although you could split larger groups into sub teams to do different Challenges or Missions.
Q. How should I recruit a team of Water Explorers?
A. Teams are very flexible and can be made up of students from a single class, an after school club or they can be made up of a mixed aged group of students. If your team is on the younger range of the age span for this programme (8-10) they will likely need more guidance whereas an older or mixed group should be able to lead most of the Challenges on their own. One way to recruit your team of Water Explorers could be to hold an assembly about Water Explorer and ask for volunteers.
Q. How many leaders can be involved?
A. We recommend having one leader or teacher in overall charge of your team of Water Explorers.
Learning and Resources
Q. What learning does Water Explorer address?
A. Challenges are designed to be completed with students aged 8-14 and provide an extensive range of learning opportunities. Each Challenge has a complexity level, this refers to the difficulty if the learning and is rated as either easy (1), medium (2) or hard (3). Because of the wide reach of this international programme, it has been designed to provide broad curriculum links to a number of subjects taught in all eleven countries including; Geography, Science, Mathematics and Literacy, rather than being specifically tailored to meet the objectives of one country’s curriculum. Water Explorer also seeks to promote a number of key values to encourage local and global citizenship. In addition, students will develop their skills in presentation and communication, team working, problem solving and project management.
Q. How do I know which Mission area is right for my students?
A. We suggest letting the students decide what issues are most important to them and which they would like to focus on. You could hold a team-wide vote. Water Explorer is designed to be flexible so that you can complete Challenges from any Mission area and in any order. You do not have to complete one Mission area before starting another one.
Q. How can I use Water Explorer to help reach Eco-School status?
A.The challenges in Water Explorer help students at your school to reduce water use and pollution. This may help contribute towards other eco programmes and accreditation but the Water Explorer programme is not directly linked to any other programmes.
Q. Where can I see some example teacher resources?
Click here for a preview or download the entire pack for free here.
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