Booking an educator's visit

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Last Updated on Thursday, 07 February 2013 15:45

If your community group or school would like a visit from one of our Water and Waste educators, the following guidelines are designed to help you make a booking for a TRC guest speaker to attend your meeting or visit your classroom.

Our educators can speak on a range of topics related to water and waste management. Book through Council by phoning 131 872 and ask for Water and Waste Education (Extension 6290).

Topics might include:

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WaterWise tours and visits

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 06 March 2013 16:15

• Book a WaterWise tour
• Request a WaterWise or WasteWise classroom visit.

These services are provided free of charge; however, bookings are essential for all tours and visits. Bookings for a tour or visit can be made by contacting us. Please refer to booking guidelines (see article below) before booking your tour or visit.

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Classroom resources

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:45

Council's WaterWise team have developed, produced and released news updates, DVDs, brochures and factsheets, and identified useful website links related to water studies.  The following are a list of resources produced by Council for use in schools and the general community. New ones related to waste and recycling are currently being developed.

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Tour booking guidelines

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 06 March 2013 16:13

For all tours of Water facilities

• All tours are guided by either operational staff and/or one of council's educators
• There are no fees or charges for these services.
• Participating community groups and schools are responsible for providing a bus to transport participants to and from the site (and around the facility where applicable).
• All participants including the visiting group leader are required to follow the TRC tour guide's instructions
• Teachers and any accompanying adults are expected to provide active supervision of their student group.
• Book through Council by phoning 131 872 and ask for Water and Waste Education (Extension 6290)
• Please notify any late cancellation by phoning 07 4688 6290.

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Teacher resources

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Last Updated on Friday, 07 December 2012 21:48

• Helpful websites - for both students and teachers. Refer to the articles below
• At the turn of a tap - - This is council's WaterWise teaching resource that has been developed to assist teachers to better inform students on local water issues. This resource includes integrated work units (p-3, yrs 4-5, yrs 6-8), curriculum based lessons, to match lessons,water related and useful references for all work units. A copy of the full resource is available online.

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Helpful web links

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:03

If you are looking for some interesting educational websites try some of these. They include some very informative and creative interactive sites suitable for classroom work or individual extension work.

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High school resources

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Last Updated on Friday, 07 December 2012 21:48

There are some really useful resources being produced around Australia to support and complement high school syllabi. The web links menu provides access to some of these sites.  Our WaterWise education unit can assist teachers with local information from Toowoomba Regional Council, and are happy to visit your classroom to speak with your students.

• For some really helpful weblinks for senior science classes, click here. 
• Check current dam levels for Toowoomba bulk water supply and the related documents found on that page for details of daily and weekly rainfall, evaporation and consumption data
• Are there any students out there who might have a project worthy of the  Australian Stockholm Junior Water Prize? Check out the Australian Water Assocation (opens in a new window) website

Helpful education contacts

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Last Updated on Friday, 25 January 2013 15:01

Variety in presentation and out of the ordinary learning experiences can enhance classroom learning.

For information on people that can assist with classroom activities and provide other water-related resources please contact us - the WaterWise Education team.

For assistance with outdoor activities such as creek walks and water quality monitoring of local creeks, it is best to contact either:

• Amaroo Environmental Education Centre  (Highfields) (opens in new window) or
• Landcare Discovery Centre QMDC (Campbell St) (opens in a new window)

Another source of local information is Qld Museum Learning - Cobb & Co. Museum

Water quality monitoring

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Last Updated on Friday, 07 December 2012 21:52

School participation

Monitoring of Gowrie or any other creek within the region is a good hands-on exercise for students and provides relevance and value to their studies about catchments and water quality issues.

If your school is interested in, or has been, measuring water quality along your local creek, you can:
• Adopt creek sections to remove weeds and rubbish
• Participate in bio-monitoring of macro-invertebrates and water quality;
• Post data on the World Water Monitoring Day website;
• Celebrate achievements made along your local creek through the World Water Monitoring Day activities and awards;
• Hire water quality monitoring equipment from the Landcare Discovery Centre, QMDC, at corner of Campbell and Bellevue streets, Toowoomba.

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Environmental message from students at Drayton State School

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Last Updated on Friday, 07 December 2012 21:53

Students from Years 6 and 7 at Drayton State School recently produced two pieces of drama which focused on the importance of healthy catchments.

The first piece by Year 6 students featured the evil ‘Algae Man’ who, with his pet crocodile, spread algae wherever he went.  Superhero ‘Super Catchment Man’ saved the dam because he remembered the words about algae from his teacher Mrs Marshall.

Year 7 students focused on a camping group, a family and a builder who were all damaging the environment by pouring things down the drain or into the local catchment.

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Preschool to Year 3

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Last Updated on Friday, 07 December 2012 21:48

When designing our teachers' resource, "At the Turn of a Tap", we discovered some wonderful books to assist teachers plan their work units and use in water studies with their young students. These books are found at the Toowoomba Library Catalogue and are recommended for this age group. They are useful when using our integrated water unit "Water for Life" for junior students.

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Years 4 to 5

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Last Updated on Friday, 07 December 2012 21:48

When designing our teachers' resource, "At the Turn of a Tap", the following books were found to provide excellent support for our water unit, "Wise about Water" asking students 'So what's so serious about a dripping tap?' These books answer some of the questions students have about where water comes from, how it is used, and where it goes.

These books are found at the Toowoomba Library Catalogue.

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Years 6 to 8

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Last Updated on Friday, 07 December 2012 21:51

Our education resource provides work units and lesson outlines written to support senior primary and middle school students studying sustainability and water resource issues.

Below is a list of some excellent books that relate to local water issues, as well as Australian and global water topics. They link well with our integrated unit "Water for our Future" and can be sourced from Toowoomba Library Catalogue.

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