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OWN - Do it yourself classroom activities
Listed below are a few easy to follow activites that you can do with your students.

A program designed to assist students learn more about the importance of keeping gutters free from leaves and pollution.
Danny the Drip is an active visual exercise for students from R-4, emphasising the variety of pollutants that can enter waterways and how they accumulate. It shows the progressive deterioration of a river as it makes its way from the hills, through the catchment out towards the sea.
Students role play living in a catchment and learn about the variety of impacts that human society has on their local catchment.
This activity, which last for approx 1 hour, looks at the key concepts of: what isa habitat?; aquatic animals’ survival needs; how human activities impact upon habitat; what we can do to improve damaged aquatic habitats.
Download a macro invertebrate id chart to use with your class.
Instruction on how to make a simple net out of a pair of old pantihose and a coathanger.
Instruction on how to make a simple net out of a pair of old pantihose and a coathanger.
Students can test their knowledge of frogs through this activity.

 

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