The Adventure of Water
An educational project on water for Italian schools

One Ocean Foundation created a board game for elementary schools focused on the important theme of the water cycle, aimed at helping children better understand water, its pathways, its usefulness, and the necessity of treating it as a precious and respected resource.

The project is primarily targeted at fourth-grade students, who will discover how humans have learned to channel water, harness its power, and navigate it, as well as how rivers, seas, and precipitation shape landscapes. The kit consists of an illustrated booklet and a board game that engagingly follows the journey of water from glaciers to the sea. Along its journey, water carries a heavy burden of liquid and solid waste that ultimately ends up in the ocean. The Water Adventure addresses the issue of pollution and describes the problems threatening the health of marine ecosystems. At the same time, it explores the journey of water from not only a scientific perspective but also a historical and geographical one, and includes hands-on experiments.

The goal is to show young participants the positive behaviors they can adopt for a more sustainable future.

Thanks to the scientific collaboration with the National Research Council, Institute of Polar Sciences, and the partnership with Esselunga, the game was initially used by hundreds of students during the 2020/2021 school year. Esselunga is the organizer of "School Friends," a program that involves 11,000 Italian schools, to which One Ocean Foundation presented "The Water Adventure."

In 2024, The Water Adventure was used to educate younger children on sustainability and environmental respect at the Centrale dell'Acqua in Milan during summer camps, as well as at the Ketos center in Taranto.

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