Dams are well-known features of farming landscapes. They are also valuable natural assets. ANU’s Sustainable Farms project works with farmers, land managers, NRM agencies, industry groups and Landcare towards a common goal: healthy farms, healthy farmers and healthy profits. They offer a range of great resources: a farm dam poster, life in a farm dam activity sheet, […]
Underwater species colouring sheet
This colouring sheet features a variety of species that call our waterways home. Importantly it shows some of our endangered small-bodied fish. You can learn more about these fish in this video.
Nature-scrolling activity
A nature scroll is simply a long, narrow piece of paper used to record your responses to nature, in words and pictures. It can be a portable, bite-sized alternative to nature journalling and a wonderful way for your students to engage with their local environment or make observations whilst at your adopted water testing site. Make […]
Water Cycle activity sheet
Students can use this activity sheet by our friends at Gippsland Water to fill in the gaps and name the water cycle processes then colour it in.
Easter Basket
While Easter is not an Aboriginal celebration, eggs were a big part of customary life and looking at how Aboriginal people used eggs is a great perspective for all age groups at Easter time. The protocols around egg gathering took into consideration the sustainability of the species producing them. Eggs were respected as a source […]
River Detectives Program School Plan
Use this School Plan to start a conversation with colleagues delivering the River Detectives program in your setting. This is a great template to use at the start of the year with lots of useful questions to promote thinking and space to document the approach you plan to take. There is also a useful template […]
What’s In Your Habitat ? activity sheet
Use this simple template to challenge students to sit quietly outside and record what they see, hear and smell using words/sketches.
Nature Journalling activity
Be inspired by this video by central Victorian Trace Balla and start recording the things you see, hear, touch and smell at your local waterway or anywhere in nature. You can also access her Nature Journalling for Little Ones video or Nature Journalling for Teens video. Journal throughout a year and record the seasonal changes […]
Your hand as a catchment
Use this activity sheet to model a catchment with your hand; high points representing hills and wrinkles in your palm representing waterways.
Catchment Mind Map
Use this template or use your own method to brainstorm all of the elements that exist within your catchment from natural features such as ranges, waterways, plants and animals to human features such as roads, towns, industry and agriculture and to the ways we enjoy and use the catchment; camping, bike riding, kayaking, sport, etc. […]
