Teaching Resources: Catchments
Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Resources
Best of Catchment Connections (5Mb pdf)
Includes a unit of work on Caring for our Catchments, introduction to catchments, catchments of the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges, student activities, lesson plans and excursion notes. See pages IV-37. For human impacts on catchments, see pages 119-161.
Making Catchments
An erosion experiment where you can make your own catchments and explore the effects of running water on soil.
Silt City
An experiment that explores the concept of how changes in landuse create changes in local and regional waterways.
Catchment Survey (61Kb pdf)
A worksheet to help you conduct your own catchment survey.
Catchment Capers Lesson Plan (65Kb pdf)+ Catchment Capers Activity Cards (300Kb pdf)
Stormwater/wastewater Poster (165Kb pdf)
An A3 poster showing the different flows of stormwater and wastewater. Students can see clearly that wastewater comes from inside of our homes and is treated before it enters or waterways, while stormwater comes from outside of our buildings and enters our creeks, rivers, wetlands and sea, untreated.
Stormwater Series posters (2.3Mb pdf)
Eight A3 photos showing the path stormwater takes on its journey from outside our homes to the local waterway. Also included are photos of stormwater pollution and trash racks.
How has the catchment changed over time?
Blackline master worksheets that show how a catchment can change;
The Past (200Kb pdf)
The Present (170Kb pdf)
What can we do? (180Kb pdf)
The Future (200Kb pdf)
Central Adelaide Resources
What About Catchments Teacher Resource Pack (1Mb pdf)
Key concepts and ideas to assist teachers in introducing students to their local catchment area and exploring the impact that human activities have on water quality.
Danny the Trip Story Pack (1Mb pdf) + Danny the Drip Teachers Notes (80Kb doc)
Danny the Drip is an interactive story that describes a journey from the top to the bottom of the local water catchment, looking at landuses and the potential pollution they produce. During the story students are invited to add their 'home-made pollution' to a water filled aquarium. By the end of the catchment journey the water is very smelly and visually polluted. This story names the Torrens River, however it can be adapted for any river in the Adelaide Mount Lofty Ranges region. The Teachers Notes provide discussion points and extension activities.
Patawalonga or Torrens catchment tours
If you are interested in visiting some of the interesting excursion sites in the Patawalonga or Torrens catchments, click HERE to open up the Waterwatch Central Adelaide catchment tour website in a new window.
This website gives you information on some of the suggested excursion sites that can be visited and gives you hints on planning your own Catchment Tour. There's also some example worksheets that may be used to target students' learning during the trip.