Water Aid Pupil Pipeline game
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Link: How its creators describe it
WaterAid provides clean water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world’s poorest people. Their Pupil Pipeline project is a fun and educational water delivery challenge for schools that will help bring clean water to communities around the world, like Finote Selam’s primary school. The challenge? Pupils need to work together to transport water with as little waste as possible. 10 litres, over 50 meters, within 20 minutes, without anyone leaving their spot! Anything goes: buckets, bottles, jars, cups or even wellies.
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“I'd get a bucket of water and say ‘there you go, that’s how much you’ve got for a day’. So give them a physical thing of actually seeing you've only got 10 litres of water and that’s as much as you can use. It's a lesson I do with my Year 7 class, I tell them how much water each thing they use normally takes, so they can work out how much they use in the day, but then say ‘you've only got 10 [litres]’.” Newcastle-based middle-school educator.
“So you send them to go fetch the water and that's part of the role play, they get into, like, how this impacts different people, and you can start by, ‘OK, you go start getting the water’ and they do it. And then ‘Go, get some more. You've got a litre there’, and then ‘now do it as a group of four: how much quicker is it?’. And that sort of -as an individual it's tough, but as a collective, everyone chipping in - that can very minor sort of introduction to that sort of individual agency, but collaborative sort of... not success, but the strength of collaborating to make a difference.” Newcastle-based primary educator.