General News
4 July, 2023
Students look closer at water
TIMBOON P-12 School Year1/2 students have been learning all about water.
TIMBOON P-12 School Year1/2 students have been learning all about water.
Timboon Agriculture Project (TAP) co-ordinator Andrea Vallance said during term two the students received a visit from environmental educator from Curdies Valley Landcare Network (CVLN) Debbie Dalziel to help students better understand this “precious resource”.
“Debbie took students on a journey consolidating and extending what students had explored in the classroom looking at the various states of water and where we find it,” she said.
“Despite the earth being a water-based planet, Debbie illustrated the scarcity of fresh, usable water by cutting a quarter out of an apple to demonstrate the amount of fresh vs salty water then sliced a smidge of that quarter to depict the limited amount of useable water.
“After discussing our reliance on water and exploring local waterways, Debbie challenged the students to consider what happens when water hits the earth’s surface.”
The students crumbled pieces of paper and drew blue lines in the creases to depict waterway runoff then added drawings of crops, houses, animals and people in that environment.
Mrs Vallance said spray bottles were used to depict rain events in the catchment with water hitting the ridges then forming puddles, streams, creeks and rivers and carrying traces of what it passed through on its journey.
“To conclude, Debbie shared clips of her underwater diving experiences and of local platypus that used to be plentiful in the Curdies River catchment area,” she said.
“We are incredibly grateful for Debbie’s unravelling of this invaluable resource for our students and to demonstrate that we must all play a part in conserving and protecting these vital waterways.”