• myGriffith
    • Staff portal
    • Contact Us⌄
      • Future student enquiries 1800 677 728
      • Current student enquiries 1800 154 055
      • International enquiries +61 7 3735 6425
      • General enquiries 07 3735 7111
      • Online enquiries
      • Staff phonebook
    View Item 
    •   Home
    • Griffith Research Online
    • Journal articles
    • View Item
    • Home
    • Griffith Research Online
    • Journal articles
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

  • All of Griffith Research Online
    • Communities & Collections
    • Authors
    • By Issue Date
    • Titles
  • This Collection
    • Authors
    • By Issue Date
    • Titles
  • Statistics

  • Most Popular Items
  • Statistics by Country
  • Most Popular Authors
  • Support

  • Contact us
  • FAQs
  • Admin login

  • Login
  • Teaching and Knowing beyond the Water Cycle: What Does It Mean to Be Water Literate?

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    98879_1.pdf (950.1Kb)
    Author(s)
    Sammel, Alison
    W. McMartin, Dena
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Sammel, Alison J.
    Year published
    2014
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    Water is an extraordinary thing: it is key to the chemistry of life. If it wasn't for water's unique properties, such as its abilities to dissolve other substances, life could not exist on our planet. In-deed, life was thought to have started in water and currently more than half of the plant and animal species live in water. On land, plants and animals need water for their existence, as the ability of water to disassemble and rearrange other molecules is essential to all daily actions. As humans, our bodies consist of about 80% water when we are babies, to around 60-65% as adults. The human brain is about 85% water. Even ...
    View more >
    Water is an extraordinary thing: it is key to the chemistry of life. If it wasn't for water's unique properties, such as its abilities to dissolve other substances, life could not exist on our planet. In-deed, life was thought to have started in water and currently more than half of the plant and animal species live in water. On land, plants and animals need water for their existence, as the ability of water to disassemble and rearrange other molecules is essential to all daily actions. As humans, our bodies consist of about 80% water when we are babies, to around 60-65% as adults. The human brain is about 85% water. Even though this simple polar molecule is one of the most prized possessions in the universe, what do people know about water? What does it mean to be water literate? In this paper, we explore what it means to be water literate in the fields of engineering and in science education. We will compare this theoretical understanding with what engineering and science education students actually know about water. We finish with recommendations to increase student's literacy in water.
    View less >
    Journal Title
    Creative Education
    Volume
    5
    Issue
    10
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.4236/ce.2014.510097
    Copyright Statement
    © 2014 The authors and SciRes. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy
    Education
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/65481
    Collection
    • Journal articles

    Footer

    Disclaimer

    • Privacy policy
    • Copyright matters
    • CRICOS Provider - 00233E

    Tagline

    • Gold Coast
    • Logan
    • Brisbane - Queensland, Australia
    First Peoples of Australia
    • Aboriginal
    • Torres Strait Islander