Upper Parramatta River Catchment Education Resource Kit

Background Information – Catchment – Sub catchment – Environment issues Curriculum Links – Science Stage – Geography Stage – 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

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