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Impacts and Consequences

Students develop an understanding of impacts and consequences that human activity can have on catchment functioning

What is the activity?
(Where does it fit in the curriculum?)		 What type of activity is it? Will I need help? How do I access useful information to assist me in this activity? Where is this activity available?

Plant adoption sheets

  • Understanding of the concepts of sustainability, conservation and care of resources and places, and taking action consistent with these.
 - Plant adoption sheets - each
  student adopts a planted tree
  indigenous to the local area.		 Plant adoption sheets All catchments

Propagation: Raising Plants from Seeds

  • Understanding of the concepts of sustainability, conservation and care of resources and places, and taking action consistent with these.
  • Connections between living things, and between themselves and natural environments.
 - Collect native seeds from the
  local area.
- Seek advice from your Our
  Patch or Catchment Care
  Officer as to the
  appropriateness of the
  location and species being
  collected.		 Landcare Notes
(NRE VIC Government)
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/web/
root/domino/cm_da/nrenlwm.nsf/
frameset/NRE Land and
Water?OpenDocument		 All catchments
Let's Plant Trees: 1
  • Construct and explain their ideas about the diversity of living things and how they reproduce and grow.
 - Outline for children on how to
  plant trees.
- Diagrams and simple
  explanations.

Landcare Notes
(NRE VIC Government)
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/4A2568
B2008332A3/BCView/457DDE34
534065BACA256BCF000AD519?
OpenDocument

 All catchments

Basic vegetation associations and plant identification

  • Understanding of the concepts of sustainability, conservation and care of resources and places, and taking action consistent with these.
  • Connections between living things, and between themselves and natural environments.
 - Locate an appropriate patch
  of indigenous vegetation in
  your local area with the
  assistance of your Our Patch
  or Catchment Care Officer.
- Look at different tree species
  and discuss why they might
  grow in different areas.

Check with your local Our Patch/ Catchment Care officer
http://www.catchments.net/

 All catchments

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