The Bristol Water Foundation

07/09/2021

FREE water butt & competition for Primary Schools with prizes to be won! Not a teacher? No worries pass this on to any schools or your kids school as it's a good 'un! 🎨

Primary Schools can get a free water butt and take part in a competition with the Bristol Water Foundation!

30/07/2021

🦋 Chew Valley lake fan? Here's a new worksheet on butterflies to show young 'uns next time you visit! Did you know butterflies taste with their feet! 🦋 https://bristolwaterfoundation.co.uk/learning-resource/la-la-lakeside/

16/07/2021

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! The water supply turns 175 years old today, so here's 3 FREE history worksheets for kids on the history of water, we've blended in some other facts like when the titanic sank and war started to make it really useful stuffs! Download them here: https://bristolwaterfoundation.co.uk/learning-resource/time-travel/

01/07/2021

What temperature is cold enough to give you cold water shock and freeze up your body? Click 'see more' for the answer!

It's only 15 degrees! Which is what Chew Valley Lake and Cheddar Reservoir often can be even on a sunny day. Download our water safety comic strip: https://bristolwaterfoundation.co.uk/learning-resource/la-la-lakeside/

17/05/2021

While we're just coming into the next phase out of lockdown, endangered European eels have been living restriction free travelling from the Sargasso Sea to our lakes in Somerset! Download the life cycle worksheet for KS2 here: https://bristolwaterfoundation.co.uk/learning-resource/la-la-lakeside/

25/03/2021

Attentionnn!! ✋ Get the kids into water saving with this fun navy shower idea! Shower like a navy Sargent and save 84 litres of water by turning the shower off while lathering up! 🧽 We also have this on a fun worksheet here: https://bristolwaterfoundation.co.uk/learning-resource/top-tips/

23/03/2021

It's your last chance to win an iPad! All you have to do is enter our water saving pledge! Competition closes on 31 March 2021 💧

Head to: https://bristolwaterfoundation.co.uk/water-saving-pledge/

Why save water?

💧 Use water you use energy - to treat and pump the water to you
💧 Using less means we can leave more in rivers for wildlife
💧 More people combined with climate change puts a strain on the natural water cycle - we're using more water than ever before

23/03/2021

Work out how much plastic you use over a year!

Just because homeschooling is over doesn't mean we can't stop learning.

Sit down with your kids and get the recycle box out and we'll help you work it out so you can think about how to reduce waste! Head to https://bristolwaterfoundation.co.uk/learning-resource/save-the-sea/

03/03/2021

🌞 Struggling with the last week of homeschooling? We've got you covered! Colour in the water cycle - mapped around the KS2 National Curriculum! We'd love your feedback also, drop us a note in the comment below with your thoughts. We're trying to make learing all things water a bit easier! Visit: https://bristolwaterfoundation.co.uk/learning-resource/wonderful-water-cycle/

23/02/2021

New worksheet alert! 💡

And in fact new ones landing weekly. We you know the European Eel is eely cool. You can find them running around right here in Somerset before heading back to North America for naps and more baby elvers, they're colour changing and more engandered than the red panda!!

Hot off the press, read all about them here - https://bristolwaterfoundation.co.uk/learning-resource/la-la-lakeside/

25/01/2021

A new iPad!? Yes please! ✔️

Just take our quick water saving pledge for a chance to win. You don't even have to pledge to much! Just an effort to try (although you could try taking a navy shower - 2 min shower pausing the shower to lather - genius 👀

Link: https://bristolwaterfoundation.co.uk/water-saving-pledge/

All ages welcome to enter, but if you're under 18, you will need parental consent 😃

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13/01/2021

Growing water 😲 need to learn about the properties of water in your GCSE science (or for younger folk as it's fun - for KS2!) Freeze a glass bottle of water in a bag (with an adult) and it'll grow so much that it shatters. For a less dramatic effect but safer way, use a milk carton!

💡 So why is this? Well when frozen, water arranges itself differently. Water has a much tighter knit group (as seen by Squidge & Snap!), but frozen water forms a much bigger one - ahh lots of Squidge & Snaps! The water expands as it is frozen because of the hydrogen forming an open type lattice. This makes ice less dense than water.