The following extracts from the National Curriculum illustrate some possible curriculum links that could be made with the water resource.

ICT

Key Stage 2: Developing ideas and making things happen
Pupils should be taught:

How to develop and refine ideas by bringing together, organising and reorganising text, tables, images and sound as appropriate for example, desktop publishing, multimedia presentations

Key Stage 3: Exchanging and sharing information
Pupils should be taught:

how to interpret information and to reorganise and present it in a variety of forms that are fit for purpose for example, information about a charitable cause presented in a leaflet for a school fundraising event
to use a range of ICT tools efficiently to draft, bring together and refine information and create good-quality presentations in a form that is sensitive to the needs of particular audiences and suits the information content
how to use ICT, including email, to share and exchange information effectively for example, web publishing, video conferencing.

Science

Key Stage 2 & 3:
During the key stage, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, skills and understanding through:

a range of domestic and environmental contexts that are familiar and of interest to them
looking at the part science has played in the development of many useful things
using a range of sources of information and data, including ICT-based sources
using first-hand and secondary data to carry out a range of scientific investigations, including complete investigations.

Geography

Key Stage 3:
How and why weather and climate vary, including:

PSHE

Key Stage 2: Preparing to play an active role as citizens
Pupils should be taught:

to research, discuss and debate topical issues, problems and events
that resources can be allocated in different ways and that these economic choices affect individuals, communities and the sustainability of the environment.

Citizenship

Key Stage 3: Developing skills of enquiry and communication
Pupils should be taught to:

think about topical political, spiritual, moral, social and cultural issues, problems and events by analysing information and its sources, including ICT-based sources