Waterworld Activities

The mission briefing comic shows you the future as it might turn out without your help! Find out what happens when Chrono-Bot R00T5 travels to drowned, insect ridden future…

Preview the comic online, one frame at a time (available to everyone, opens in a new window)

Download the mission briefing comic for printing as handouts or to put on the wall as a poster (registered users only). This download is 5Mb in size, so may take a while to download.

The Waterworld Teacher’s Notes gives full background on how Roots & Shoots: Mission Possible works, what has happened to make the future Waterworld happen, and how best to use the activities.

Download the Waterworld Teacher’s Notes

This activity is about malaria. Here in the UK malaria is often only thought about when travelling abroad for a holiday or when contracted by a celebrity. But malaria is an every day issue for billions of people across the world and is responsible for almost 900,000 deaths a year, 90% of which occur in Africa. In this activity your students will be learning about the disease and its consequences and also the mosquitoes that spread it.

Download the Malaria Activity

This activity is about the impact of climate change on the physical and human geography of the UK. In this activity your students will be learning about the varied topography of the British Isles and which areas will be at risk of disappearing if water levels rise. The main issue students need to take away from this activity is how radically different life will be if such dramatic changes to their physical geography occur unchallenged, and so better understand why we need to help prevent it.

Download the “Geography: Floodrisk!” Activity

This document sets out eleven activity ideas that you could use that are linked in to the Waterworld mission. Over time, we will be developing these ideas in to full activity sheets, but in the meantime we thought we would share them with you so you can use them straight away!

Download Waterworld Extra Activity Ideas