upper parramatta river catchment education resource kit
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Upper Parramatta River Catchment
Education Resource Kit
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
• Background Information– Catchment– Sub catchment– Environment issues
• Curriculum Links– Science Stage 4 - 6– Geography Stage 5 - 6– Environmental Education Policy
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
• Field Trips– 9 planned trips– virtual field trip River Ganga, India
• Activities– Science– Geography
• Maps
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
• Background Information– Catchment Issues
• Biodiversity
• Demographics
• Geology
• Geomorphology
• Hydrology
• Landuse
• Rainfall
• Social History - including Aboriginal History
• Soil Types
• Vegetation Communities
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
• Background Information– Sub-Catchment Information
• Blacktown Creek
• Darling Mills Creek
• Floodplains of Upper Parramatta River
• Grantham Creek
• Greystanes Creek
• Hunts Creek
• Pendle Hill Creek
• Toongabbie Creek
• Upper Parramatta River
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
• Background Information– Environmental Issues
• Biodiversity
• Ecologically Sustainable Development
• Environmental Legislation
• Flooding
• River Ganga
• Urban Development
• Water Pollution
• Water Sensitive Urban Design
• Weeds
• Salinity
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
• Field Trips– Overview of sites – Field Trips
• Parramatta Regional Park
• Lake Parramatta
• Loyalty Road Flood Basin
• McCoy Park Wetlands
• Greystanes Creek
• John Silverthorne Park
• Lancelot Street Wetlands
• Central Gardens
• Blacktown Creek
• Virtual Field Trip - River Ganga Varanasi
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
• Curriculum Links– Environmental Education Policy– Science
• Stage 4
• Stage 5
• Stage 6 Biology
• Stage 6 Earth and Environmental Science
• Stage 6 Senior Science
– Geography• Stage 5
• Stage 6
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
• Geography Activities• Building the global web
• Catchment walk
• Dirt busters (POEO)
• Floods (includes water sensitive urban design
• Senior geography project
• School pollution prevention plan
• Site field study
• Vegetation and soils
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
• Science Activities• Biodiversity and macro invertebrates
• Landuse
• Catchment field trip
• Habitat
• Journey down the drain
• Home environment checklist
• Catchment story
• Floods (water sensitive urban design)
• Water use audit
• Community pollution survey
• Mapping school grounds
• Geology and geomorphology
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
• Maps– Sub-catchment maps– Whole catchment aerial photographs– Whole catchment topographic map – Environmental issues
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
• Training– Geography teachers 6 November– Science teachers 12 November– Council staff and librarians 19 November
Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit
• Updates
• Annual review and update
• Major review in 5 years
Upper Parramatta River Catchment
Education Resource Kit