Catchment Investigation

• Investigate, interpret and represent information from field work, electronic systems and other research, in order to explain local and global interactions and relationships between people and environments.

- Using information available
  on the internet, such as
  catchment plans, and other
  resources available in
  Understanding Catchments
  on this site, identify what
  catchments are and
  investigate human impacts
  on catchments and the
  complex consequences of
  such impacts.

Interactive tour of the Murray Darling Basin

• Investigate, interpret and represent information from field work, electronic systems and other research, in order to explain local and global interactions and relationships between people and environments.

- Web interactive.
- Map and interactive tour of
  the Murray Darling Basin.

• Examine natural and social environments in local and global communities.
• Consider sustainability and care of resources and places as they explore how people’s attitudes and values affect their interactions with natural features and cycles.

- Interactive web activity
  explaining catchments and
  the impacts of humans on
  catchments.

• Appreciate and report on the place of humans in the earth’s ecology.
• Investigate, interpret and represent information from field work, electronic systems and other research, in order to explain local and global interactions and relationships between people and environments.

- Investigate the issues for
  healthy catchments verses
  unhealthy catchments.
- Use research links on this
  site to research the
  relationships between
  healthy ecosystems and
  healthy catchments.
- How have humans affected
  earth’s ecology and what
  are the consequences?

Is your catchment up the creek?

• Investigate, interpret and represent information from field work, electronic systems and other research, in order to explain local and global interactions and relationships between people and environments.

- Water is controlled by
  gravity.
- What a catchment is.
- Where the Onkaparinga
  Basin is.
- Where the students are in
  relation to the catchment.
- What the name of their sub-
  catchment is.
- What happens on their sub-
  catchment that might affect
  water quality and can we
  test for it?
- How we can take an active
  role in looking after our
  catchments? Waterwatch
  officer.

Virtual Catchment Crawl

• Investigate, interpret and represent information from field work, electronic systems and other research, in order to explain local and global interactions and relationships between people and environments.

- PowerPoint presentation
  virtual reality tour brings a
  local river system into the
  comfort of your classroom.
- Waterwatch officer.

Catchment Tour

• Investigate, interpret and represent information from field work, electronic systems and other research, in order to explain local and global interactions and relationships between people and environments.

- Actively engages students
  in an exploration of the
  features of their catchments.
- Waterwatch officer.

Catchment Crawls

• Investigate, interpret and represent information from field work, electronic systems and other research, in order to explain local and global interactions and relationships between people and environments.

- Actively engages students
  in an exploration of the
  features of their catchments.
- Waterwatch officer.

Onkaparinga Waterwatch Network
http://www.onkaparinga.net/
caring/waterwatch.shtml