Salt Water vs Fresh Water
Your child knows almost all of Earth's water is salty ocean water. Only a tiny part is fresh water we can drink. They can show this on a graph.
In curriculum terms
Describe and graph the amounts of salt water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth
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Can your child explain that most of Earth's water is salty ocean water, and only a tiny fraction is the fresh water we drink, and show this on a graph?
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Curriculum alignment
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Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 1 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
identify sources of water and describe key processes in the water cycle, including movement of water through the sky, landscape and ocean; precipitation; evaporation; and condensation
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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