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Wetland Detectives

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The Urrbrae Wetlands Learning Centre has produced a primary school wetland education kit, called Wetland Detectives. The package  incorporates  introductory activities that can be completed in the classroom, prior to your visit to the Wetlands. It also contains a range of activities, which require the students to become detectives and work scientifically to investigate some tricky wetland questions.




The questions are centred around the following themes

-  Making observations
- Wetland words
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How the wetlands work
- Cleaning water
- Wetland ecosystems
-Who lives above the water?
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Food chains
- Insect and bird identification
- Who lives under the water?
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Indigenous Australians (Bush food trail)
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Sampling macro invertebrates
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Identifying macro invertebrates
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Who Lives Under The Water -
Students collect macroinvertebrates from the wetlands, then identify them using the microscopes in the learning centre. The students are able to assess the health of the wetlands according to the abundance, richness and sensitivity ratings of the macroinvertebrates they find. 
who_lives_under_the_water.pdf
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Does the Wetland clean the water -

Students take a tour around the wetland, looking at the man-made and natural elements that help clean the water. The students take  water samples from different locations around the wetlands and conduct a range of simple tests to determine whether the wetland does in fact clean the water.
how_does_the_urrbrae_wetland_work_primary.pdf
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Images contained on some of these worksheets are courtesy of NRM Education.
More resources and activities can be found on their website
http://www.nrmeducation.net.au/
All activities are flexible and able to be adapted to suit individual groups according to age, time restraints and desired learning outcomes.

Please contact the Wetland manager to arrange your tour and access your
Wetland Dectective package
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