Information and Resources for Schools
National Water Week provides a wide range of fun learning opportunities for your school to increase awareness about water and how important it is to us all. The event encourages better understanding of the importance of conserving the limited water resources available to us, and the significance of securing water for our future through diversification of water sources.
Benefits of Participating in NWW Activities
Schools who have participated in NWW activities in the past have found there to be many benefits, including:
- A place to learn about the environment as an interconnected series of relationships
- An opportunity for experiential, hands-on learning in all areas of the curriculum
- Increased opportunities for schools to form partnerships with their local community
- An opportunity for all students to be involved in a variety of activities
- A chance to make a difference to our environment
Get Your School Involved
Get your comprehensive guide to planning and running a National Water Week event for your school.
Steps to get your students involved:
- Nominate a teacher or parent who is willing to oversee preparations for the day
- Pick a location to carry out your National Water Week activities
- Pick a day to run your activity/event
- Register your activity/event on the National Water Week website
- Structure the experience around a simple lesson on water
- Ask the local community for assistance
- Hold your event/ activity
- Upload photos of your event/activity on to the National Water Week Photo Gallery.
Schools involved in National Water Week are supported through:
- Access to lesson plans with a focus on the National Water Week theme for the year
- Fun activities to enhance learning
- National branding under the NWW program
- Newsletters and information
- National Water Week Guide to running your own event.
- National Water Week events calendar
- National Water Week poster
- National Water Week colouring-in template
Ideas for events and activities that can be run to promote National Water Week
- Organise some fun in-class activities around the National Water Week theme
- Run a school assembly with a focus on National Water Week
- Invite members of local environmental groups to talk to your class
- Conduct a water audit of school water use
- Plan excursions for students to take part in water conservation and management activities
