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How Catchments funtion

Students develop understandings of how a catchment functions

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?
Catchment Water Management Boards
  • Examine natural and social environments in local and global communities.

- For maps, definitions, plans,
  community projects and local
  catchment information.

 SA Catchment Water Management Boards
http://www.catchments.net/		 All catchments
What is a Catchment?
  • 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.

- Web interactives to help
  explain catchment practices.
- Assisted by a Waterwatch
  officer.

 KESAB P&T Waterwatch
http://www.cwmb.sa.gov.au/kwc/
section1/1-01.htm		 Patawalonga and Torrens
Is your catchment up the creek?
  • Care of resources and living things.
  • Connections between living things, and between themselves and natural environments.
  • Significance of places and resources.

- What is a catchment, where
  is your catchment and how
  can we improve the health of
  our catchment?
- Waterwatch officer.

 Onkaparinga Waterwatch Network
http://www.onkaparinga.net/
caring/waterwatch.shtml#catch		 Onkaparinga
Catchment Crusaders
  • 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.

 KESAB P&T Waterwatch
http://www.cwmb.sa.gov.au/kwc/
interactive/cc/index.htm		 All catchments

Act a Catchment?

  • Examine natural and social environments in local and global communities.

- Hands on activity with a
  Waterwatch officer to
  explain.

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

Is your catchment up the creek?

  • Examine natural and social environments in local and global communities.

- Classroom activity with a
  Waterwatch officer to
  explain.

 Northern Adelaide & Barossa Waterwatch
http://www.nab.waterwatch.org.au/		 Northern Adelaide & Barossa

Danny the Drip

  • 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.

- Audience plays the role of
  the pollutants that Danny
  meets as he travels from the
  top of the catchment, through
  the hills, into the suburbs
  and finally to the sea.
- Waterwatch officer.

 Northern Adelaide & Barossa
http://www.nab.waterwatch.org.au/

KESAB Patawalonga & Torrens
http://www.cwmb.sa.gov.au/kwc/

Onkaparinga Waterwatch
http://www.onkaparinga.net/
caring/waterwatch.shtml		 All catchments
Local walks
  • Life Cycles of living things.
  • Care of resources and living things.
  • Take actions consistent with understanding of the concepts of sustainability, conservation and care of resources.

- Identify broad aspects of the
  local environment such as
  remnant native vegetation,
  creeks, gardens, animals
  and plants.
- Teacher/parents/local
  community helpers.

 Use Road directories or catchment maps from your local catchment plans
http://www.catchments.net/

Also use Maps from National Parks and Urban Forest Urban Biodiversity Program

 All catchments

Virtual Catchment Crawl

  • Examine natural and social environments in local and global communities.

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

 Northern Adelaide & Barossa Catchment Water Management Board
http://www.nab.waterwatch.org.au/		 Northern Adelaide and Barossa

Catchment Tour

  • Examine natural and social environments in local and global communities.

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

 KESAB P&T Waterwatch
http://www.cwmb.sa.gov.au/kwc/		 Patawalonga and Torrens

Catchment Crawls

  • Examine natural and social environments in local and global communities.

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

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

 Onkaparinga

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