Educational Activities
The following activities have been developed to assist teachers with practical, hands-on learning activities to include in lesson plans.
- Catch me if you can
- This activity Introduces the concept of a catchment, helps students develop an understanding of contour lines and catchment mapping, and creates an understanding of land use and how it can impact on water quality. Suitable for student grades 5-8. Download this activity
- How do you measure up
- Assists in developing an understanding in how even the smallest of actions can contribute to water conservation. Suitable for student grades 5-10. Download this activity
- Which Source
- Helps students develop an understanding of the limited supply of fresh water and the importance of using a variety of water sources to sustain our water future. Suitable for student grades 5-10. Download this activity
- Cleaning Up Our Catchments
- Cleaning up Our Catchment helps students to develop an understanding of catchments, the interconnectedness of landscapes, and the relationship between surface water and groundwater. Suitable for student grades 5-7. Download this activity
- Grey is the new Blue
- An activity to help students develop an understanding of greywater and the importance of water reuse, and awareness about water treatment processes and how we can minimise the impact we have on clean water. Students will work collaboratively to design strategies to filter from some of the contaminants contributed by household wastes from greywater. Suitable for student grades 5-10. Download this activity
- Home-ing In On Water Pollution
- Assists in developing understanding of how water is used in the home and what impacts our domestic lives have on water quality. Also provides increased awareness about water treatment processes. Suitable for students grades 3-9. Download this activity
- Waiter! There's a critter in my water!
- A combination of classroom and field activities will give students and opportunity to understand how aquatic macro-invertebrates (water critters) are indicators of the environment in which they live and how different species can give students an indication of water quality in any given location. Download this activity
- Wordy Water Words
- Challenge your students to see how many words they can find in these water-related words. Download this activity
