In this lesson, students research and design water education posters and present them to younger students at their school. They work to represent and communicate ideas and findings in a variety of ways such as diagrams and physical representations. Students plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts demonstrating increasing control over text structures and language features and selecting print, and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose. Students will be able to research the answers to water questions using reliable sources, draft an informative poster appropriate for younger students and ensure the images in their poster complements a written message.

Students investigate the issue of a sustainable fresh water supply. They examine some of the issues and compare different views about managing water resources. Students then write an essay about a water issue of their choice. They use comprehension strategies to interpret, analyse and synthesise ideas and information, critiquing ideas and issues from a variety of textual sources. Students analyse and evaluate the ways that text structures and language features vary according to the purpose of the text and the ways that referenced sources add authority to a text. Students will be able to research an issue using a variety of reliable sources. Students can analyse a range of resource management issues around water and can articulate the complexities of a single water issue, giving at least two opposing perspectives.

In this activity, students work in pairs to research the important issue of sustainable use of water resources. Students will discover the most appropriate way to find credible information about this issue on the internet. Students are given time to find internet material that they evaluate according to a set of criteria. Students identify websites that are credible, useful, and informative.

This tool will help you to structure student research. It will assist them to organise ideas and help them to form opinions about new topics.