Introduction

A major focus for the Queensland government in education is sustaining the earth’s natural resources to ensure, “enough for all forever” (Education Queensland, 2010). This means providing an education that instils values of sustainability and conservation as well as giving children an action plan or way of acting upon these values (Gilbert et al. 2004). This Wiki provides resources, curriculum connections and student activities that tackle just one aspect of sustainability studies, water conservation. The site has been created as a teacher resource for teaching a SOSE inquiry based on McDonalds (2004) three phased inquiry model, ‘Establishing what we want to find out’, ‘Finding out’ and ‘What we want to do with what we have found out’ and is aimed at a Grade 3 year level (it could be adapted to suit other year levels). A major focus of this site is the effective integration of ICT's as tools for learning.

The Student Space and Resources pages are designed for the students to guide them through their inquiry about water and it's conservation whilst the Curriculum page is for teachers in making connections between the inquiry going on, good teaching practices and current curriculum documents.