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Description

Discuss all the ways you use water at home. Keep track of how much water you use for a day. How could you reduce this?

Resources

 cut-outs of the water usage pictures and numbers of litres
Optional:
 bottles or buckets to illustrate 180 litres of water to encourage discussion

Instructions

Introduction
This demonstrates how much water we use every day, the importance of using less water and the impact of high usage on the environment.

Instructions
How Much Water
Put a set of the cards on the floor, at the top of the hall, for each Six. Sixes line up at the end of the hall. One by one Brownies run to the top, collect a card and bring it back to their Six. When each Six has collected all the cards, they try to figure out which image matches which water usage card.
Read out the correct answers to see how they paired up.

Answers:
Brushing teeth – tap turned off (1 litre)
Brushing teeth – tap left running (5 litres)
Washing hands and face (5 litres)
Shower (30 litres)
Bath (80 litres)
Flushing toilet (7 litres)
Cup of tea/hot or cold drink (0.3 litres)
Washing clothes in washing machine (70 litres)
Washing clothes by hand (25 litres)
Dishwasher (30 litres)
Washing dishes in the sink (6 litres)
Indoor watering can (2 litres)

Debrief/Discussion
Discuss how we all need to use less water to help prevents droughts in the world and how simple local actions, can have a global impact.
The attached worksheet can be filled out by the Brownies for one day and these figures can be used to get a weekly average figure. Alternatively some Brownies may choose to track their water usage for the full week.

Tags

• brownies
• Environment
• water

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