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