Activities -Drink water for health

Here you will find a list of the activities that we have prepared for you. You can download the PDF version of this list from the bottom of this page.

1. Design a poster to highlight one source of water contamination and realistic suggestions for its prevention.

2. Visit a water treatment centre. Ask questions and make a quiz for your family members or friends.

3. Find out how to filter water and demonstrate this at camp. Make a series of filters which look like the one in our picture. You will need:

   • Funnel Beakers (ideally, marked with millimetres)
   • Filter paper
   • Different types of cloth
   • Blotting paper
   • Ordinary paper
   • Cotton wool
   • Make some muddy water by mixing tap water with soil and gravel.
   • Put a filter membrane (paper, cloth etc) inside each of the funnels and put each funnel into a beaker.
   • Pour the same amount of muddy water into each of the funnels and record the time it takes to let all the water drain through.
   • Note how clean the water is when it runs through. Is it dirty, quite dirty, quite clean or clean?
     

4. Research a country whose economic situation is different to your own. Part of your research could be interviewing someone from that country. Describe the life of a girl of your age who lives there. What things do you share? How is life different? What water problems do your communities share? What problems are different? Is there a way you can make the world a better place for both of you?

5. Find out about different diseases that are carried by water in your country and other parts of the world. Make a checklist on how to prevent contamination.

6. Design a leaflet which explains how to purify water in at least two ways when camping or in an emergency situation such as in a flood, storm or earthquake.
   

7. List ways to avoid polluting water on a camping trip. Practise these methods on your next trip.

8. Find out the recommended daily amount of water you should be drinking for your age. Challenge yourself to drink that amount of water every day for a week.

9. Drinking water example. Did you know the average person consists of approximately 65 per cent water? Weigh yourself and find out how much water that would be in your case. Use buckets to demonstrate.

10. For older members: Link to the BBC’s website and take the water quiz. (From the BBC website, Science and Nature section):  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3747588.stm
    
    

11. For older members: Find out what the effects of pesticide spraying are on the surface and groundwater. Discuss the problem with officials. Organize a campaign to inform the community on the side effects of it and find out how you can make changes (such as switching to use of organic products).

12. For younger members: What are the pleasures and dangers of water? Make up a short play to express this and perform it to your family members or unit.

13. For younger members PLAY! ‘Why did the frog cross the river?’

• All the players except one form two lines, facing one another with a ‘river’ (a real stream or a piece of cloth) between them. They are the frogs. The other player is the carp. She moves constantly up and down the river between the two lines.

• The carp chooses one frog to cross the river. This frog chooses another frog to swap places with. They have 60 seconds to do this without the carp catching either of them. If a frog is caught, she becomes the carp.

Play this game for 15 minutes or until all players have been the carp.