Water Managment Schools Programme
The Schools Programme was delivered to ten National Schools located in the Moy catchment area. The presentation was aimed at third, fourth, fifth and six class students. It consisted of a PowerPoint presentation on all aspects of the Cycleau project, and focusing on water pollution and water management.
The day consisted of games" Who wants to be a Millionaire" this game was based on the presentation that was delivered to the schools, guest speaker Don Conroy, who is a renowned wildlife expert and a famous artist. He talked on the importance of water resources and held an art-drawing workshop on teaching the children to draw pictures of nature, various birds, fish and water theme pictures.
The schools open day was helped on the 12th of May; the theme of the day was " Be the Solution, Prevent Water Pollution" where 200 students attended it, 20 from each of the ten schools.
Each school prepared a poster, mural to demonstrate their awareness of water, and the students displayed these in the hall.
There were also activities provided after the presentation, board games, water experiments, recyclable workshop demonstrating how to make useful objects out of recyclable materials e.g. dress making from plastic materials and various other fun games all focused on water management and water pollution.
The afternoon consisted of water experiments these included water tension, capillary action, water purification, and measuring dissolved oxygen levels of water samples polluted and non polluted.
Also there was invertebrate identification using the microscope and identification keys.
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