Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit

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Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education
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Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education
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• Background Information
• Catchment
• Sub catchment
• Environment issues
• Curriculum Links
• Science Stage 4 - 6
• Geography Stage 5 - 6
• Environmental Education Policy

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• Field Trips
• 9 planned trips
• virtual field trip River Ganga, India
• Activities
• Science
• Geography
• Maps

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• Background Information
• Catchment Issues
• Biodiversity
• Demographics
• Geology
• Geomorphology
• Hydrology
• Landuse
• Rainfall
• Social History - including Aboriginal History
• Soil Types
• Vegetation Communities

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• 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

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• Background Information
• Environmental Issues
• Biodiversity
• Ecologically Sustainable Development
• Environmental Legislation
• Flooding
• River Ganga
• Urban Development
• Water Pollution
• Water Sensitive Urban Design
• Weeds
• Salinity

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Maps
• Sub-catchment maps
• Whole catchment aerial photographs
• Whole catchment topographic map
• Environmental issues

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• Training
• Geography teachers 6 November
• Science teachers 12 November
• Council staff and librarians 19 November

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• Updates
• Annual review and update
• Major review in 5 years

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