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Thursday, 13 August 2015 / Published in Community, Education, Resources

Through the Eyes of an Educator: Gold Coast Waterwatch for Term 2

Gold Coast Waterwatch is an education and community engagement program designed to develop knowledge around the human impacts on waterway health in Gold Coast Catchment areas. Together, we discuss what a catchment is and how the health of the waterway may be improved or depleted through human activities as well as working with students and community members to undertake chemical and biological testing of waterways all around the Gold Coast.

When working with school students water testing is regularly conducted at a waterway within or nearby to the school grounds. We also conduct catchment crawls, where the students visit a number of sites in one day in order to compare the waterway health at different locations in the catchment.

Here is a little photographic insight into the Waterwatch through my eyes this year so far…

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Investigating water bugs from Mudgeeraba Creek with pre-kindy tots at Upper Coomera ELC

 

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Chemical testing near the mouth of Currumbin Creek with Robina State High School. This waspart of a catchment crawl day which involved testing at two other sites in the catchment: the goose pond at Bourke Lodge Drive and the Currumbin Rock Pools.

 

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Meeting Gracie the carpet python, one of the residents at Numinbah Valley Environmental Education Centre. This was after discussing the Nerang River Catchment and associated management issues with year 11 students from Mt St Michaels College.

 

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One of our regular visits to Currumbin Community Farm Campus to investigate water bugs with students on school camp. This is our 5th year working with the farm.

 

 

 

 

Tagged under: catchments, currumbin community farm, environmental education, kids in nature, Nerang River Catchment, outdoor education, water bugs, water quality, waterwatch, waterways

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