Scottish Water Generation H₂O – For Primary Schools

Scottish Water Generation H₂O is a nationwide campaign to encourage young people to protect Scotland’s most precious resource: its water.

We’ve put together the following free resources for primary school teachers, which are all carefully linked to the Curriculum for Excellence, and contribute towards the Water topic in the Eco Schools Award:

• Every Droplet Counts: NEW water-saving activities for P1-4
• Keep Scotland Flowing: a video-led journey through the water cycle for P5-7
• Mission H₂O: school-wide water challenge for P1-7

Just register or sign in to download. You can find out more below, or see our Generation H₂O secondary resources for secondary school teachers.

NEW: Every Droplet Counts

Designed to run across a 1-hour session, Every Droplet Counts gets pupils aged 5-8 thinking about the water they use, with a hands-on activity that’ll make them appreciate every drop – even when it’s rain.  

It’s as fun as it is educationally robust, with links to the CfE areas of Health and Wellbeing, Science, Social Subjects and Technologies. 

What you’ll get 

Register for free, and you can download the following resources:  

• Teacher’s Guide – clear guidance on how to use these activities and how they link to the Curriculum for Excellence. 

• Lesson PowerPoint – ready-to-use presentation with videos starring Droplet, our friendly waterdrop guide, and Scottish Water employees. 
• Activity Sheet – a supporting worksheet to get pupils thinking of ways to save water. 
• Homework Task – a worksheet for pupils to document the different ways they save or re-use water at home. 

Keep Scotland Flowing

Bring the water cycle to life with a video-led journey for pupils aged 9-11 (P5-P7). Characters Arthur and Flo explain how water changes state, then challenge your pupils to create a campaign to protect and celebrate Scotland’s water.

It’s a great way to contribute to your school’s Water Topic in the Eco Schools Award, and supports learning in Literacy and Expressive Arts, as well as Science, Social Subjects and Health and Wellbeing.

What you’ll get

Once registered, you can download the following resources:

• Teachers’ Guide – comprehensive, easy-to-use lesson instructions, outlining full links to the Curriculum for Excellence.
• Interactive Lesson Presentations – characters Flo and Arthur take learners on a video-led journey through the water cycle.
• Homework Tasks – learners observe and document the water cycle in their local area.
• Campaign Planning Sheets – inspire learners to create their own powerful water campaign.

Mission H₂O

Make a splash with a playful and interdisciplinary water-saving challenge for P1-P7. Kick things off with an all-school assembly about using water sustainably, before pupils compete to complete water tasks all week.

Designed by education experts, it meets CfE objectives for Science, Social Subjects, Health and Wellbeing.

What you’ll get

Registered users can download the following resources:

• Mission H₂O Assembly Launch – a ready-made, engaging presentation to set the whole school on a mission. 
• Teachers’ Guide – explains all the challenges and how to take part in them, plus extra STEM activities.  
• Water Actions Scorecard – a worksheet with 10 simple water actions to complete.  

Request a volunteer

A Scottish Water volunteer could also visit your school, to answer your students’ questions about saving water and support your lesson.

Our volunteers are employees trained to visit schools and share Generation H₂O’s message. Register today to submit a request. Visits are subject to location and availability, but we do our best to accommodate all requests.

Find out more by watching our Generation H2o launch video.