How does rain falling in urban areas affect waterways?
View A catchment story video that follows the journey water takes as it flows through an urban catchment.
Can you:
- identify the journey water takes from falling as rain to when it enters the ocean?
- identify the types of pollutants that were carried by water as it travelled through the urban catchment?
- identify where these pollutants came from?
Activity
- Watch the video a second time.
- Create your own catchment story video, comic strip or written story.
- What pollutants will you add?
How can we measure water quality?
View the Water quality testing in Buffalo Creek video.
Activity
- Record the results from the video in the Water quality results table in Google docs.
- Select 'use template' and 'make a copy'.
- Explain why Buffalo Creek may have recorded these results.
- Make a prediction on what could happen to the results if there was a large rainstorm or during a drought.
- Do you think your local waterways would record similar results?
Litter in Buffalo Creek in the Field of Mars Reserve
How can we manage water pollution in urban areas?
View the Managing stormwater in Buffalo Creek video. It shows local council management strategies at the Field of Mars Reserve to improve the water quality of Buffalo Creek.
- Review the results from the Buffalo Creek water tests.
- How effective have the management strategies been?
Activity
- How might individuals contribute to the improvement of water in urban waterways?
- Create a message that will educate people about keeping our waterways clean. Select ONE of the following:
- create a poster
- make a stop motion animation.
