This term our Year 1/2 students have been discovering the wonderful world of water and to weave these experiences together we invited environmental educator, Debbie Dalziel from Curdies Valley Landcare Network (CVLN), to help students better understand this precious resource. Debbie took students on a journey consolidating and extending what students had explored in the classroom looking at the various states of water and where we find it. Despite the earth being a water based planet, Debbie illustrated the scarcity of fresh, usable water by cutting a quarter out of an apple to demonstrate the amount of fresh vs salty water then sliced a smidge of that quarter to depict the limited amount of useable water. After discussing our reliance on water and exploring local waterways, Debbie challenged the students to consider what happens when water hits the earth’s surface. The students crumbled pieces of paper and drew blue lines in the creases to depict waterway runoff then added drawings of crops, houses, animals and people in that environment. Spray bottles were used depict rain events in the catchment with water hitting the ridges then forming puddles, streams, creeks and rivers and carrying traces of what it passed through on it’s journey. To conclude, Debbie shared clips of her underwater diving experiences and of local platypus that used to be plentiful in the Curdies River catchment area. We are incredibly grateful for Debbie’s unravelling of this invaluable resource for our students and to demonstrate that we must all play a part in conserving and protecting these vital waterways. Comments are closed.
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