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? |
| Macroinvertebrate
monitoring
- Construct and explain their ideas about the diversity of living
things and how they reproduce and grow.
- Identify and communicate the importance of maintaining diversity
of living things.
|
- Visit your local creek.
- Outdoor sampling and indoor
lessons involving video
microscopes. Look at
bioindicators and water
quality. Waterwatch officers
can assist in the field. |
Northern Adelaide & Barossa
Waterwatch
http://www.nab.waterwatch.org.au/ |
Northern Adelaide and Barossa |
| What
is a Macroinvertebrate?
- Construct and explain their ideas about the diversity of living
things and how they reproduce and grow.
- Identify and communicate the importance of maintaining diversity
of living things.
|
- Learn to sample and
identify
creatures in your watery
environment (the class helps
collect them) or in the
classroom (we bring the
bugs). A video microscope is
used to view them. |
Onkaparinga Waterwatch Network
http://www.onkaparinga.net/
caring/waterwatch.shtml |
Onkaparinga |
A Bug’s
Life
- Construct and explain their ideas about the diversity of living
things and how they reproduce and grow.
- Identify and communicate the importance of maintaining diversity
of living things.
|
- Learn about biological
monitoring and how aquatic
invertebrates are used as
indicators of water health.
- Activity in the classroom or at
a local waterway.
- Assisted by a Waterwatch
officer. |
KESAB P&T Waterwatch
http://www.cwmb.sa.gov.au/kwc/
section1/1-11.htm |
Patawalonga and Torrens |
Habitat
assessment
- Students use a range of resources and technologies to gather
and present information. They develop mapping and graphing skills
to represent observable features in the environment.
|
- Assessing the habitat
value of
a waterway.
- Waterwatch officers can
assist in the field. |
Northern Adelaide &
Barossa Waterwatch
http://www.nab.waterwatch.org.au/ |
Northern Adelaide and Barossa |
| Water
quality monitoring
- Students use a range of resources and technologies to gather
and present information. They develop mapping and graphing skills
to represent observable features in the environment.
- Develop strategies, including using technology, to collect,
organise and represent data, and use it to describe situations
and to make decisions and personal plans.
|
- Monitor the chemical
water
quality of your local water way
using Waterwatch equipment
and expertise.
- Waterwatch biological
monitoring - students
participate in biological
monitoring and learn about
the connection between
biodiversity and water quality.
- Waterwatch officers will train
teachers in the use of testing
equipment. |
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 |
Gutter
Guardians
- Students use a range of resources and technologies to gather
and present information. They develop mapping and graphing skills
to represent observable features in the environment.
- Develop strategies, including using technology, to collect,
organise and represent data, and use it to describe situations
and to make decisions and personal plans.
|
- Local activity around
the
streets near your school.
- Sweep your street and
examine the types of
pollutants that can enter the
waterways. |
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 |
| Our
Patch/Catchment Care Activity
Biodiversity audits
- Examine natural and social environments in local and global
communities, analysing patterns, systems and relationships.
- Construct and explain their ideas about the diversity of living
things and how they reproduce and grow.
- Identify and communicate the importance of maintaining the
diversity of living things.
|
- Biodiversity audits
looking at
bioindicator species, such as
various indigenous plant
species, birds and frogs.
- Our Patch/Catchment Care
officer. |
Look for links on this
site. |
All catchments |
| Our
Patch/Catchment Care Activity
Specific plants or animals
- Seek explanations about the internal and external features
of living things in order to better understand the supports of
life in particular environments.
- Identify and communicate the importance of maintaining the
diversity of living things.
- Construct and explain their ideas about the diversity of living
things and how they reproduce and grow.
|
- As students develop,
they
can look more closely at
specific plants or animals,
presenting their information in
a variety of forms.
- Our Patch/Catchment Care
officer. |
Look for links on this
site. |
All catchments |
| Backyard
for Wildlife Program
- Identify and communicate the importance of maintaining the
diversity of living things.
|
- How can your garden
be eco-
friendly?
- Information and advice with
links to other resources. |
http://www.wtcc.sa.gov.au/
backyardwildlife/ |
All catchments |
| Floral
emblem project
- Seek explanations about the internal and external features
of living things in order to better understand the supports of
life in particular environments.
- Identify and communicate the importance of maintaining the
diversity of living things.
|
- Education Kit available
from
Botanic Gardens.
- The kit introduces you to
national, state and territory
emblems, and their different
habitats.
- Investigate a local patch of
native vegetation and decide
on a floral emblem for your
school, town or district. |
Australian National Botanic
Gardens
http://www.anbg.gov.au/education/
floral-emblem-ed/ |
All catchments |
| How
Healthy is your bushland?
- Students use a range of resources and technologies to gather
and present information. They develop mapping and graphing skills
to represent observable features in the environment.
|
- Information sheets
which
explain how to assess your
local bushland. |
Land For Wildlife Notes
(NRE VIC Government)
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/4A2568
B2008332A3/BCView/12AAB70B
88FAF3FFCA256BCF00088831?
OpenDocument
|
All catchments |
| Our
Patch/Catchment Care Activity
Monitoring your Site
- Students use a range of resources and technologies to gather
and present information. They develop mapping and graphing skills
to represent observable features in the environment.
|
- Monitor your site
using photo
points, maps, and drawings.
- Our Patch/Catchment Care
officers can assist. |
Refer to Urban Forest
Biodiversity Program web site
http://www.urbanforest.on.net/
main.htm |
All catchments |
| Our
Patch/Catchment Care Activity
Planting indigenous species
- Construct and explain their ideas about the diversity of living
things and how they reproduce and grow.
|
- Planting indigenous
plant
species.
- Classroom lesson before
planting, to explain that we
are trying to construct habitat
for insects, animals, birds
etc. as well as for more
plants.
- Our Patch/Catchment Care
officers can assist. |
Landcare Notes
(NRE VIC Government)
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/web/
root/domino/cm_da/nreninf.nsf/
frameset/NRE Information
Series?OpenDocument |
All catchments |
| Our
Patch/Catchment Care Activity
Weeding
- Identify and communicate the importance of maintaining diversity
of living things.
- Construct and explain their ideas about the diversity of living
things and how they reproduce and grow.
|
- Weeding local or school
site.
- Our Patch/Catchment Care
officers can assist. |
Landcare Notes
(NRE VIC Government)
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/web/
root/domino/cm_da/nreninf.nsf/
frameset/NRE Information
Series?OpenDocument |
All catchments |
| Our
Patch/Catchment Care Activity
Constructing a herbarium
- Seek explanations about the internal and external features
of living things in order to better understand the supports of
life in particular environments.
- Identify and communicate the importance of maintaining the
diversity of living things.
- Construct and explain their ideas about the diversity of living
things and how they reproduce and grow.
|
- Constructing a herbarium
from
weed species.
- Incorporate collection,
identification, taxa and
distinguish from local native
species.
- Discuss how weeds influence
native biodiversity. |
Check with your local
Our Patch/ Catchment Care officer
http://www.catchments.net/ |
All catchments |
| Our
Patch/Catchment Care Activity
How to collect seeds from native trees and shrubs
- Seek explanations about the internal and external features of
living things in order to better understand the supports of life
in particular environments.
|
- Thorough explanation
of seed
collecting with diagrams. |
Landcare Notes
(NRE VIC Government)
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/web/
root/domino/cm_da/nreninf.nsf/
frameset/NRE Information
Series?OpenDocument |
All catchments |
| Our
Patch/Catchment Care Activity
Propagation: Raising Plants from Seeds
- Construct and explain their ideas about the diversity of living
things and how they reproduce and grow.
|
- Introduction to propagation
methods, adopting and caring
for seedlings over the summer
holidays at home, and
planting out next year. |
Landcare Notes
(NRE VIC Government.)
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/web/
root/domino/cm_da/nreninf.nsf/
frameset/NRE Information
Series?OpenDocument |
All catchments |
| Our
Patch/Catchment Care Activity
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 |
| Our
Patch/Catchment Care Activity
Collect baseline data
- Children generate data about the world around them. They develop
strategies, including using technology, to collect, organise and
represent data, and use it to describe situations and to make
decisions and personal plans.
- Seek explanations about the internal and external features
of living things in order to better understand the supports of
life in particular environments.
|
- Collect baseline data
on their
patch plantings, e.g. growth
rates of plants, success
rates, death rates, number of
species planted, among
others.
- At your Patch – what is there
now (the baseline), what was
there pre-European
settlement, what is possible
to have there now to reflect
the pre-European vegetation
association, and how are we
going to achieve this. |
Check with your local
Our Patch/ Catchment Care officer
http://www.catchments.net/ |
All catchments |
