School engagement program resources

The activities of the Local Land Services School Engagement Program are hands-on and focus on localised issues and solutions. Read more about the topics below and download their associated resources. 

Water quality and catchment health

Activities include:

• Waterbugs across the catchment poster
  Across the catchment the water quality can be Good, Fair and Poor. Different water bugs live in these conditions and are represented in this illustration.
• Riparian Habitat worksheet
  This includes some fun activities to help students learn about riparian habitats.
• The Riparian Zone Guided Meditation lesson plan
  This combines a ‘sense of place’ and mindfulness helps students appreciate the importance of these special areas. The meditation is followed by a lesson on the importance of riparian zones for water quality and biodiversity.
• Dung beetles are nature’s animal waste processors
  This worksheet includes how to identify these important little waste machines
• Frogs of the Hunter 
  This includes information on how to identify frogs, their calls and how to attract frogs to your garden.
• Platypus class activities
  This includes some fun facts about the platypus, ideas for in class activities and student worksheets.
• Rakali class activities 
  This includes some fun facts about rakali, ideas for in class activities and student worksheets.

Pest animals

Activities include:

• Who’s living in my school? teaching resource
  Students will discover how to identify, monitor and record the presence of pest and native animals in their school grounds. They will then develop a Call to Action plan to encourage native wildlife and manage pests.
• The Fast and the Furriest game
  This fast-moving outdoor game helps students learn about the fight for survival many threatened species experience due to the impacts of pest animals and humans. This set also includes information about:
  • Australian pied oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris)
  • Beach stone-curlew (Esacus magnirostris)
  • Little Tern (Sternula albifrons)
  • Spotted-tailed Quoll (Dasyurus maculatus)
  • Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor)
  • Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia)
  • Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata)
  • Australasian Bittern (Botaurus poiciloptilus)
  • Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis)

Cultural burning

• Cultural burns are cool story, facts and script for a play
  The play provides an immersive experience for students, enabling them to obtain an appreciation of how and why Cultural burns can benefit, improve and maintain healthy landscapes for our community.

If you want more information, or to organise a sustainability day at your school, please see the Local Land Services School engagement program. 

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