Watercare offers an excellent range of free, helpful educational programmes and resources to support teaching about a number of water-related topics..jpg)
New entrants upwards
Stormwater – Learn about the impact that humans have on their environment. Understand the difference between stormwater and wastewater. Find out how rivers and lakes are formed with hands-on experiments.
Freshwater bug lesson. Learn about the bugs that live in freshwater streams and how they tell you about the quality of the water. Add on a field trip to your local waterway to find out what’s living there.
Drinking Water – a lesson and experiments. Find out where your water comes from and how it is cleaned
Year 5 upwards
Wastewater – a lesson and experiments. Find out where our used and dirty water goes and the processes it undergoes before entering the sea.
Adopt A stream is a hands-on science programme, containing resources for the study and analysis of a local waterway.
Can’t find what you’re looking for? Email ssmith@water.co.nz and we’ll see if we can help you out.