Education

Watercare offers schools in Auckland a free, student-centred science programme called Adopt A Stream.

It contains resources for a hands-on field study of a local waterway and lab analysis work, as well as supporting information on the water cycle and the fundamental relationship between water and all living things.

Who is it for?                                                                                                    

• Students in years 5-8 and their teachers.

What resources are provided?

• Teacher's guide and manual
• Testing kits
• Eight laboratory posters

What are its benefits?

• Shows students how water quality and ecology directly affect their lives.
• Gets students involved in learning about their local environment.
• Increases self-confidence in scientific skills - including observation, questioning, predicting, recording and analysis.
• Takes the hard work out of teacher planning - it's all done for you.
• Can be adapted to suit specific needs and aims of learners.

What are its credentials?

• Based on successful international models, Adopt A Stream is approved as being compatible with levels 3 and 4 of the NZ Science Curriculum, with links to the maths, English, social studies and technology curricula.

What does it cost?

• Adopt A Stream resource kits are free of charge to schools in the Auckland area.

To get a resource kit or more information, contact:                                   

Adopt A Stream Project Co-ordinator
Watercare Services Limited
Ph 09 539 7316
Fax: 09 539 7333
Email: adoptastream@water.co.nz

Newsletters

	Newsletter Term 1 2010 (480KB)	Adopt A Stream is a great way to get children involved in enquiry-based learning
	Newsletter Term 4 2009 (497KB)	Sign up for the Adopt A Stream programme in term one 2010 and join in the World Water Day celebrations by looking at the quality of water in your local stream.
	Newsletter Term 3 2009 (485KB)	If you are looking for a way to integrate scientific skills and attitudes with the living world, the material world, planet earth and beyond - then look no further.
	Newsletter Term 1 2009 (616KB)	Sign-up for World Water Day packs.
	Newsletter Term 4 2008 (497KB)	Sign-up for free environmental resources for 2009
	Newsletter Term 3 2008 (568KB)	Having completed class-based lessons, pupils can trek down to their local stream and measure its turbidity, pH and nitrate levels, temperature, depth and smell
	Newsletter Term 2 2008 (516KB)	Water water everywhere...would you like the lessons to match? Find out about new stormwater, drinking water and wastewater resources
	Newsletter Term 1 2008 (695KB)	Schools can book a static display on drinking water and wastewater. A display will be assembled at your school on a Monday morning and picked up two weeks later on the Friday afternoon to give you time to use the resource with more than one class
	Newsletter Term 4 2007 (1151KB)	New resources have been added to our water education programme: Before and after river pollution posters, water poster, Just making life easier, 20 even more exciting water facts
	Newsletter Term 3 2007 (550KB)	Have you seen this bug? Watercare's Adopt A Stream programme enables children to study water quality in local streams or stormwater ponds
	Newsletter Term 2 2007 (643KB)	If your school is studying water in Term 2 or later this year why not take the time to make a more detailed study of your local stream?
	Newsletter Term 1 2007 (972KB)	Adopt A Stream water test kits have been used by over 3,000 students in 37 schools in 2006. Here is the latest Adopt A Stream Hall of Fame