Water Literacies, developed from The Fresh Water Literacies project (2018), was based on two key research questions:
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What would a curriculum for the Anthropocene1 look like?
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How might primary school teachers (Year 5) explore this curriculum in practice in a range of contexts?
Water literacies builds on primary aged students’ understanding of the importance and finite availability of fresh water. To this end, students’ recognition of their personal impact on living in an overdeveloped world and their ‘unfair’ ecological footprint are central to the resources provided here. Water Literacies focuses specifically on developing scientifically and mathematically literate citizens who have the confidence to make informed, democratic decisions with respect to fresh water.
1 The Anthropocene is the current geological age, the period in which human’s impact on the Earth is the dominant influence on the environment. It is an era in which humans will need to take far more responsibility for the wellbeing of Earth systems.
