Waterbugs and waterways
This series of colourful activity sheets cover a range of indoor and outdoor tasks to keep students entertained, while helping them to get to know the unique species that live in their local waterways.
This series of colourful activity sheets cover a range of indoor and outdoor tasks to keep students entertained, while helping them to get to know the unique species that live in their local waterways.
The Melbourne Water Asset GIS map traces networks of water, sewerage and drainage pipes that keep our city functioning
Download and print out these colouring sheets, a great rainy-day activity. Whether they're for school holidays or a spot of art therapy, they showcase the diverse habitats and inhabitants of our local waterways.
Colouring sheets: Diving beetle, Dragonfly larvae, Freshwater snail, Mayfly, Sensitive waterbugs, Wetlands waterbugs
Explore the link between turbidity, a measure of water clarity, and erosion. It also highlights the effect of high levels of turbidity on the survival of living things in freshwater environments.
Series of lessons where students investigate recycled water and its reuse. They explore the impacts of the Millennium drought and alternate water stories. While using the Western Treatment Plant Virtual Tour.
During this excursion, discover how water travels through the water cycle and recognise how water is used and can be conserved. Explore the Edithvale-Seaford wetlands and use observations to identify flora and fauna.
Tour at ESWEC, VCE Environmental Science, VCE - Unit 1 & 2, Unit 3&4 Explore the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands and develop knowledge and understanding of wetland environments. Discover how wetlands systems and connected and sustain life.
Tour at ESWEC, VCE Outdoor and Environmental Studies, VCE - Unit 3 & 4, Explore the Edithvale-Seaford Wetlands and develop learn how humans have understood and interacted with wetland environments. Then, explore the sustainable use and management of Edithvale-Seaford wetlands.
The Story of Water: Episode 1. The water cycle, or the hydrologic cycle, describes the continuous movement of water around the Earth