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2019 Melbourne

Water Kids Teaching Kids

Conference

Proudly hosted by University of Melbourne and Collingwood Children’s Farm

29-30 October, 2019 Melbourne, Victoria

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Cities, Energy, Waste, Biodiversity - Water?

Why Kids Teaching Kids?

Kids Teaching Kids Staff

Arron Wood

Richard Wood

Dianne Wood

Michelle Tripp

Danielle Thuringer

Natasha Jerrard – Graphic Design

Augusta Jane Photography – Photographer

In Australia more than 90% of people live in cities. We are one of the most urbanised nations in the world. Cities contribute more than 75% of global CO2 emissions. This means cities are a big part of the problem, but they can also be a big part of the solution.

Cities can have a significant impact on water, waste, energy and biodiversity.

This year’s conference then poses a question: How does water connect or relate to cities, energy, waste and biodiversity? We want you to come up with innovative solutions to ensure the health of our environment, especially waterways, into the future.

Remember, you are not alone in the quest to look after the environment, we are all part of the solution - students, adults, politicians, sports people, musicians, people who live in the city, people from the country. Everyone has a role to play on the team.

Melbourne Water’s Water Warriors are also there to help! Each warrior defends and makes an impact on a different part of the urban water cycle.

You can learn more about the Water Warriors here - melbournewater.radiusmedia.com.au

Kids Teaching Kids is a school-based education model that inspires young people to learn and care for their local environment. The Kids Teaching Kids Learning Model uses ‘peer teaching and learning’ pedagogy – where the traditional role of teacher and student change. The teachers become the facilitators and the students are empowered to take

responsibility for their own learning. Students are given the tools to manage their learning and become confident, caring and informed citizens ready to take on new challenges.

Young people today are facing an ever changing world and too often we tell them that all of their power lies in the future. At Kids Teaching Kids our aim is to inspire future environmental leaders, but we also believe that each of you has the power to create change today. Through participating in Kids Teaching Kids presentations, you will see that, by

starting in your own community, you can have a positive impact on the world.

By participating in the Melbourne Water Kids Teaching Kids Conference, you are joining a network of over 135,000 students from across Australia that have participated in the Kids Teaching Kids program since its inception in 1999.

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Front cover image supplied courtesy of Melbourne Water Corporation

There are six Water Warriors hidden throughout the program. Can you find them all?

Connect with us #MWKTK19

Kids Teaching Kids Melbourne Water

@KTKaus @MelbourneWater

@kidsteachingkids @melbournewater

What’s coming up… Big Solar School Fundraiser Term 4, 2019

2020 Melbourne Kids Teaching Kids Conference October 27th & 28th, 2020

2020 Kids Teaching Kids Week September 7th - 11th, 2020

For more information visit: www.kidsteachingkids.com.au

Message from the Minister

A message from Melbourne Water

Gavan O’Neill General Manager, Customer & StrategyWelcome to the Kids Teaching Kids conference for 2019 and congratulations on being selected to represent your school. Melbourne Water is excited to be involved in the conference once again and look forward to seeing what you have discovered about water as it relates to cities, energy, waste and biodiversity.

We hope you’re ready to teach, and learn, about how important water and waterways are for Melbourne’s liveability

and how we can all work together to ensure we have a reliable supply of precious, clean, fresh water for future generations.

Every year the conference provides a wonderful chance to explore new ideas, share your knowledge and be inspired by smart solutions to challenges we face and we know this year will be no different.

The presentations and projects you do at the conference will help inform the way we tackle some of the challenges that impact all of us like population growth, climate change and increasing urbanisation. We can’t wait to see what you discover and learn.

To help you keep learning about the important role of water for people, cities and the environment we also hope you will explore our new Drip Trip game, which takes you on a journey through the whole urban water cycle. It will provide you with a unique perspective on how water moves around Melbourne.

As future leaders and environmental stewards, I hope you soak up everything this wonderful experience has to offer and I look forward to harnessing your help and ideas to safeguard the future of our waterways.

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The Hon. Lisa Neville MP Minister for WaterVictoria’s waterways and catchments are critical to the health and wellbeing of communities and the environment.

Which is why it is so important to empower the next generation of leaders with knowledge about how well-planned water management will help protect and enhance Victoria’s waterways and catchments.

As Victoria contends with population growth and climate change, everyone can play their part in saving water,

reducing waste and enhancing our environment, regardless of where they live.

It is inspiring to see a program such as Kids Teaching Kids bringing students together to discuss these vital issues.

Kids Teaching Kids is a national, peer teaching program where school students learn from and teach one another about sustainability that empowers students to contribute to their local environment, understand global environmental issues, build resilience, and connect with their community.

We’re proud to support the program in Victoria for 2019 and 2020.

The 2019 Kids Teaching Kids Melbourne Water Conference is the flagship event in Victoria – and will bring together 500 delegates from 50 schools across the country – 46 schools from Victoria and four from interstate - to share their learning.

The theme for this year’s conference is “Cities, Energy, Waste, Biodiversity – Water”, will prompt conversations about how we can manage the valuable and precious resource of water in the 21st Century.

I’d encourage you all to look at water.vic.gov.au for more water saving tips and other valuable resources about how the Victorian Government manages water.

I hope this conference inspires us all to think about our role in managing water to protect our waterways, catchments and environment.

The Thomson Dam (Melbourne’s main water supply) can hold enough water to fill the MCG 628 times.SEWER SAMURAI WETLANDS WARRIORSTREAM SPARTANSTORMWATER TROOPER NATURE NINJARESERVOIR RANGER

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Your school can also apply for the River Detectives program and learn how

to undertake water quality testing and other environmental monitoring.

Melbourne Water makes a huge contribution to Melbourne’s world-famous lifestyle. We supply the city with high-quality drinking water, treat sewage, look after all the local waterways, manage our drainage systems and help to prevent future floods. We help make greater Melbourne a fantastic place to live!

Melbourne Water

Melbourne’s water supplyMost of Melbourne’s drinking water comes from forested water catchment areas, high up in the Yarra Ranges. It is some of the best in the world! When it rains, water filters through forest soils and releases into rivers and creeks that flow into our water storage reservoirs.

Watch out for wildlifeHelp our frogs and platypus by downloading the Frog Census and PlatypusSpot apps and contribute your citizen science data to Melbourne Water.

Play the Drip Trip game and win!!Melbourne’s drinking water supply is just one part of the urban water cycle. Play our new Drip Trip game and take a water adventure through the eyes of a raindrop – travel through water reservoirs, into the sewerage system and down the drain into waterways.

Play the game during the conference for your chance to win a prize for your school!

Track litter all the way to the Bay95 per cent of litter in stormwater drains travels via our waterways to our bays and washes onto our beaches. RMIT University researchers and Melbourne Water have launched GPS tracked bottles into Melbourne’s waterways with schools and community to record where litter travels once it enters our waterways.

You can track the bottles that were launched in October for four weeks, before they get picked up by the researchers. Visit http://rmit.edu.au/littertrackers.

Millipede (Melbourne, AUS) An AKQA Company.

DRIP TRIP : LEVEL 1- 4 GAME ART & UI VIEWSJuly 2019

LEVEL 1.5 : ENTRY TO WATER TREATMENT

Visit our website for more education resources and information on all parts of the urban water cycle, including:

• Lesson plans, videos and activities for educating others

• Apply for a grant for your school

• Join a Waterwatch citizen science program like the Frog Census

• Take a school tour of our water and sewerage plants

Visit www.melbournewater.com.au/education

Education ResourcesMelbourne Water has a range of fun

and practical educational tools and

programs that you or your school can

get involved in.

Securing our water supplyWe may have had some rain but we still must be cautious with our water use.

Our challenges include:

A growing population – there are now 1.4 million new residents in Melbourne, compared with 2001. More people means more water being used.

A changing climate with longer drier periods and more intense storm events. This means less water makes its way into our water storages.

A greater risk of bushfires. Bushfires can temporarily reduce the water quality in our reservoirs and reduce how much we can supply to Melbourne.

Innovation and the future for water Melbourne Water and other water retailers are working hard with government to secure our water supply for the future.

Ways we are responding to these challenges are to:

• recycle and reuse more wastewater for things like agriculture and firefighting

• capture and reuse more stormwater for watering our parks and sporting fields

• support the design of a more water-efficient city

• desalinate seawater to top up our drinking water supply

• educate everyone about using water wisely and making every drop count!

What can you do? Target 155 Melburnians learnt a lot from the Millennium Drought and adopted many water efficiency measures and continue to do so. Last year’s average daily consumption by residential customers was 161 litres per person, 29 per cent lower than 207 litres per day in 2005/06. But we know we can do better.

Action you can take is to:

• Target 155 litres of water per person, per day. You can check your water bill for your current household usage

• Take shorter showers

• Turn off the tap when brushing your teeth

• Ask if your family or school could install rainwater tanks if they don’t have them

• Teach others what you know about water.

Visit www.melbournewater.com.au to find out more about our water supply.

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Dr Nerina Di Lorenzo Executive General Manager Service Delivery, Melbourne Water

Arron Wood Kids Teaching Kids Founder Opening Ceremony MC

9.40AM

Welcome to Conference•Arron Wood, Founder Kids Teaching Kids

Acknowledgment of Country, Nova Peris

Official Conference Opening•The Hon. Lisa Neville MP, Minister for Water

National Anthem•Mount Waverley Primary School Choir

Sustainable Medley •St Columba’s Primary School Sustainability Choir

Official Conference Launch •Dr Nerina Di Lorenzo, Executive General Manager Service Delivery, Melbourne Water•Jobe Watson, former Essendon FC Captain•Nova Peris OAM, Principal Advisor Aboriginal Engagement for Melbourne Water

Schools•Spotswood Primary School•Carranballac College

11.00AM Morning Tea / meet & greet with Jobe Watson (Workshop sessions 1 and 2 finish setup)

11.35AM Return to Wilson Hall for group break up

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11.45AM-12.25PM Workshop Session 1 11 schools present

12.30-1.10PM Workshop Session 2

1.15PM Lunch served on South Lawns (Workshop sessions 3 and 4 set up)

2.00PM Return to Wilson Hall for group break up

2.10-2.50PM Workshop Session 3 11 schools present

2.55 – 3.35PM Workshop Session 4

3.40PM Return to Wilson Hall Certificate Presentation

4.00PM All delegates are to leave Wilson Hall, schools have approx. 2 hours free time

4.15-5.15PM UoM Sustainability Tours (for schools that signed up)

4.00-5.40PM 2040 Screening

4.00-6.00PM Melbourne Water Drip Trip

6.10PM Delegates arrive and seated

6.15PM Gala Dinner opened by host Mike Larkan •Andrew Mellor, Acting Manager North West Regional Services, Melbourne Water•David Cervelli, Managing Director, MySolarDirect•Zena Cumpston, Research Fellow (Urban Environments) University of Melbourne•Cheryl Batagol, Kids Teaching Kids Ambassador & Chair EPA

School Performances•St Michaels Primary School, Berwick •Beaumaris Primary School

Kids Teaching Kids Education Ambassador Awards

Music Performance•Minor Sensation, Carranballac College

8.45PM Dinner close

8.30AM Delegate Arrival Workshop setup for 1st group of presenting schools

9.35AM Delegates make their way to Wilson Hall

8.30-9.30AM Melbourne Water Drip Trip

OPENING CEREMONYREGISTRATION WORKSHOPS GALA DINNER

Conference Program Young leaders inspiring action and positive environmental change

At least 77 species of Australian marine wildlife have been impacted by ingesting plastic over the last 30 years.

* Opening Ceremony, Workshops and Gala Dinner at University of Melbourne

Day 1 Tuesday 29

October

Nova Peris OAM Principal Advisor Aboriginal Engagement for Melbourne Water

The Hon. Lisa Neville MP Minister for Water

Jobe Watson Former Essendon FC Captain

SEWER SAMURAI WETLANDS WARRIORSTREAM SPARTANSTORMWATER TROOPER NATURE NINJARESERVOIR RANGER

Mike Larkan Weather Presenter Network 10 Gala Dinner MC

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Activity SummaryORGANISATION ACTIVITYBentleigh West Primary School Water Wise Cities

Caroline Chisholm Catholic College Sustainable Water and Energy

Carrum Primary School Love Our Streets & Beach - Carrum 3197

Catholic Regional College, St Albans Mindful Mud Dumplings

East Loddon P-12 College Weird and Wonderful Waterbugs

Silverton Primary School Coal V’s Solar

St Macartans Primary School St Mac’s Water Warriors

St Peter’s Primary School, Epping Clean Water For All

Collingwood Childrens Farm Adventures on the Farm

Edendale Farm Soil Matters

City West Water Terrariums

Melbourne Water Living in a Catchment

Melbourne Water Wurundjeri Tribe Council Activity

MySolarDirect Solar Energy Is The Future

Reptile Encounters Aqualife

SCRgroup Live theatre with Mondo

Veolia Ocean Plastics

9.00AM Delegates begin to arrive at Collingwood Children’s Farm

9.40AM Wurundjeri Woi wurrung Welcome to Country & Smoking Ceremony

10.00AM EPD launch•Arron Wood, Kids Teaching Kids Founder•Acknowledgement of Country - Montmorency South Primary School

10.15AM Break off into assigned activity groups

10.25AM First Rotation

11.10AM Morning Tea

11.35AM Second Rotation

12.20PM Lunch - free time

12.55PM Third Rotation

1.40PM Groups return to stable paddock and marquee

1.45PM Reflection and Pledge

2.10PM Official Thank You’s and Conference Close

Program

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The Environmental Project Day takes our passion for the environment (our heart), what we have learnt through the workshop process (the head) and shows us that we also need to take action (the hand) to realise true change.

TIME AND ACTIVITY

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Thanks to our activity providers:

Environmental Project Day @Collingwood Children’s Farm

Day 2 Wednesday 30

October

The Wurundjeri people called the Yarra River Birrurung - “Place of Mists and Shadows”

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WorkshopsBarmera Primary School What’s with Weeds and Water? A Really Weedie Problem Our inland waterways are an essential resource for water availability in many of our cities, particularly through times of low rainfall. Water quality is a high priority and our waterways can be affected by a range of problems. One is quite often overlooked. The wayward wanderings of weeds through waterways are a cause for concern both locally and further afield.

Cheltenham Secondary College Cooling Our Cities With climate change, cities are getting hotter and hotter, yet millions of people are living in them. We will take you on a journey to hear from “world leaders” about ways to cool cities and you will get to play a COOL game where you keep your school COOL. You will get to go on a scavenger hunt outdoors using our hand- held thermometers!

Dandenong High School Pollution Solution Our workshop focuses on pollution, mainly on air, water and land. In this workshop, there will be fun activities that make children understand how their world will change by making a difference.

Dederang Primary School Waste Warriors Dederang Primary School Waste Warriors will give practical ideas on how to minimise waste at your school by reducing, reusing, recycling and repurposing everyday items.

Epping Views Primary School Save Our Bees Epping Views will be taking you through the journey of the bees and why they are so important to our environment. Bees are a big part of our ecosystem, without the bees we wouldn’t be here today. Bees are important in so many ways, but agriculture is a big part of why we need to save the them. Without bees, there would be no pollination of the plants, which means that there would

be no grains, plants, fruits or vegetables. Human kind would not survive without bees. We are making it our mission to create ecologically sound places for the bees to live and be safe, so that they will be around for future generations.

Harkaway Primary School Harkaway Students Changing Their World - One Action at a Time! Workshop participants will learn some simple actions that can transform their environment. After learning all about the water cycle at Harkaway Primary School, students will rotate through groups making seed bombs, making compost cups and preparing a weather report with an environmental focus.

Henbury School Aquaponics: Grow Your Own Organic Fish and Vegetables Using Recycled Water Aquaponics is a combination of aquaculture, which is growing fish and other aquatic animals, and hydroponics which is growing plants without soil. This workshop intends to intensify students’ understanding on how water is being recycled in an aquaponics system that offers solution to increase the production of sustainable seafood and organic vegetables. Participants will learn how water usage is minimised and used into a system where in a symbiotic relationship between plants and animals create a productive water ecosystem that benefit humans. The workshop also aims for the participants to investigate which fishes and seafood are still available for us and those that are nearly extinct and the reasons behind the extinction or abundance of these aquatic resources.

Kolbe Catholic College Saving the Pobblebonk Frogs The workshop is about educating the children on the impact littering has on animals and their ecosystem/ environment.

Melbourne High School Changing the Environment, One Person at a Time Do you know how your everyday actions are affecting the environment? We all

want to help protect our planet but we don’t always realise how our everyday habits can affect the fragile environment around us. In our workshop, we will aim to teach you to be more aware of how you can change your habits to make a difference. We will also teach you a little bit about science, learning about how your actions are interconnected with ecosystems around us.

Mentone Primary School What is Happening to our Bay, Port Phillip Bay? Mentone Primary School is located a very short walk from Mentone Beach on Port Phillip Bay. As Lifesavers, riders, walkers and family visitors we spend a great deal of our leisure time enjoying the beautiful bay, however, we are extremely concerned at the effect plastic rubbish is having on both the environment and its marine inhabitants. We intend to show you the extent of what is happening to the bay and encourage you to think of some ways you can help to minimize this problem.

Moorabbin Primary School Water Smart Students for Water Smart Cities Join the students of Moorabbin Primary School as they investigate the effects of pollution on water quality in our city and what we can do today to help create water smart cities for our future. Take part in creative and interactive activities as you learn about water conservation and how we can make a difference in the city.

Mount Waverley Primary School Turtles in Trouble In this workshop you will learn about the plight of our indigenous turtles who inhabit the Great Barrier Reef. They are turtles in trouble: the reef is dying, the water is polluted with plastics and climate change is wreaking havoc with their food sources, habitat and breeding conditions. Come and learn how YOU can help these poor turtles and the Great Barrier Reef.

Our first conference in 1999 was to be our last. Both Arron and l were in full time work. Arron fresh out of University as a Floodplain Manager with the Mallee Catchment Authority and me as Principal of Mildura West Primary; both exhausted by the effort of our first Kids Conference said never again. Here we are after 20 years and over 140,000 students and teachers, ready to host once more. The first conference ran on a shoestring budget and every piece of furniture and equipment was borrowed. It was still a huge success with Victorian, NSW and South Australian students coming together under huge marquees to teach each other about the issues surrounding the Murray Darling Basin. A school from WA made the trip east to attend.

With our rivers in decline and no real action on climate change it would be easy to wonder what we have achieved.

However, with the continued goodwill of sponsors and the dedication of wonderful teachers and students, we feel we have played our part in the inspirational student movement that now challenges the policy makers to real action.

Kids Teaching Kids still has a belief in a bright and compelling future, and it will be people like the teachers, sponsors and our great kids here that will make it happen. On a personal note, what a bonus to work with my son on something we both feel passionate about. Congratulations to all who have contributed to this conference. Arron and l never fail to be in awe of great teachers and students.

Richard Wood, Co-founder, Kids Teaching Kids

PresentationsCelebrating 20 Years of Kids Teaching Kids

Many schools presented their workshops in their own schools and communities this year as part of Kids Teaching Kids Week before coming to the conference as a great way to practice and polish their workshops. Kids Teaching Kids Week was September 9th - 13th and saw over 7000 students from 350 schools across Australia participating in more than 40 events throughout the week.

A few schools not only attend the Melbourne Water Conference every year, but also host their own multi-school

events at their schools. Congratulations to Mount Waverley Primary School, Silverton Primary School, Henbury School, Barmera Primary School, St. Aloysius Catholic Primary School and Bentleigh West Primary School for putting on such great events and showing great environmental leadership in your communities.

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Mt Maria College Waste Water Wise Water is a valuable resource, especially in our changing climate. Our workshop aims to show kids where our water comes from and where it goes.

Point Cook College The Journey of a Godwit - The Wonder of Migratory Shorebirds Point Cook College P-9 students will be engaging their workshop audience through raising awareness of the incredible journeys migratory shorebirds make every year to and from our local RAMSAR recognised sites. They will also be sharing project work the school has partaken in through the year on migratory shorebirds.

Preston Primary School Take a Peek at Merrie Creek Merrie creek in Melbourne northern suburbs is a home to wonderful plants and very cool animals, including water rats and short-finned eel. Such important biodiversity is impacted by water pollution, which comes mainly from human activities. We will explore how our actions in and around water can affect biodiversity in Merrie creek and what we can do to protect it.

Roxburgh Rise Primary School Marvelous Melbourne’s Magnificent Water Melbourne is lucky to be one of the few cities in the world with water clean enough to drink straight out of a tap! Explore what ensures this high water quality and how we can maintain it into the future.

Ruyton Girl’s School Desalination and Harvesting Storm Water Desalination - where does it occur around Australia and how much fresh water is produced when desalinating 1000L of saltwater? Issues around salt residue and water to be discussed through puzzles, questions and activities. Harvesting Storm water - where does it all go now? What could we do with this ‘free water source’, where would we store it and how easy would it be to capture. A quest, a puzzle and a presentation to help us learn more.

St. Aloysius Catholic Primary School Queenscliff Our Town is Expanding Our workshop will focus on the environmental impact of growing populations in regional towns that may one day become cities. We will explore the impact of land clearing for building homes and establishing businesses, as well as the impact of increased urbanisation around local wetlands. We will use our own local environment and the changes taking place here to illustrate these ideas.

St Columba’s Primary School, Elwood Worms Wonderful Worms! With St Columba’s Primary Schools Kitchen Garden up and running, the students are learning about lots of important ways to grow delicious produce using nutritious soil! Did you know that having worms provides many amazing benefits to growing a healthy and flourishing garden? Learn all about worms by playing our exciting board game called, ‘Wormopoly!’

St Mary’s Primary School, Williamstown Our Wetlands = Your Sustainable City St Mary’s students have been studying the natural environment of their local wetlands, Jawbone Reserve. They have investigated soil conditions, birdlife, macroinvertebrates and audited rubbish that they located in and around the area. The students used the information they gathered over a period of time to make observations and explain how wetlands contribute to sustainable cities. The students used sustainable practises to access the wetlands.

St Louis de Montforts Aspendale Times Fun When You’re Having Flies St Louis is surrounded by water with a wetlands at the rear of the school and swales and ponds meandering through the school ground. But what’s really

special about the school is the abundant wildlife especially the amphibians we have in our ponds. Now sit back and listen to our unique St Louis story.

Tyabb Railway Primary School Frogs Were Here First, Let’s Look After Their Environment Tyabb Railway looks forward to presenting some amazing frog facts about why frogs are so important. We will give you some practical hands on actions that schools and students can do to protect frogs and their habitats.

EPDBentleigh West Primary School Water Wise Cities Students from Bentleigh West Primary School will showcase how they assisted RMIT and Melbourne Water in using the innovative Litter Tracker to track litter in real time throughout various waterways around Melbourne. Students will also provide hands on activities for their peers to learn aspects of maintaining healthy waterways both within Australia and beyond.

Catholic Regional College, St Albans Mindful Mud Dumplings! Come with us to explore the connection between gratitude, empathy, mindfulness and mud! Learn how to make the traditional Japanese craft of Dorodango or mud dumplings and how it can teach us to be more mindful about how we use water, produce waste, and cherish our biodiversity.

Caroline Chisholm Catholic College Sustainable Water and Energy Water is a vital source that plays an important role in our everyday lives. Water is utilized efficiently in urban cities and landscapes, as well as a sustainable energy source. Our three activities aim to teach others how water can be used more efficiently in these aspects of our lives, and contribute more to living sustainably.

Carrum Primary School Love Our Streets & Beach - Carrum 3197 Love Our Street Carrum 3197 operates in coalition with Carrum Beach Patrol to bring people together as a community to keep our streets clean and stop litter getting into our creeks, rivers and on to our beach. Clothing, bottles, cans, wrappers, old signs and a variety of odd things like guitars and soft toys wash

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onto our beach and streets every time it storms or rains for a day or so. The Council does a terrific job sweeping the streets and beaches of litter every week but there’s always things that slip through their net. That’s where we come in as a second wave of street and beach rubbish combers. It’s a big issue, and with your help we will explore tactics to keep our local environment clean.

East Loddon P-12 College Weird and Wonderful Waterbugs! Discover all of the weird and wonderful waterbugs that live in your waterways! The East Loddon crew will show you some of the bugs you’ll find in the cleanest of waterways as well as the not so clean. You’ll be ‘bugged’ if you miss out on this one!

Silverton Primary School Coal Vs Solar Why does our electricity cost so much and where does it come from? What is the true cost to both consumers and the environment? Students investigate and compare the pros and cons of generating electricity from burning coal and from photovoltaic solar cells.

St Macartans Primary School St Mac’s Water Warriors How does water connect to cities, energy, waste and biodiversity? Water is not only the basis of life and it plays a critical role in just about every aspect of life. Today we will be looking at how we can measure water quality by looking

at invertebrates that live in it and by measuring its pH and turbidity. We are also going to look at how we as humans can affect water quality by making choices about how we live our lives.

St Peter’s Primary School, Epping Clean for Water All We will help you understand the need for clean water. The impact on water born diseases and how Melbourne Water prepares our water to drink. You will see the impact on children in countries where the water is not treated and there is no water close at hand, especially clean drinking water.

MainstageBeaumaris Primary School Sustainable Schools 101 Beaumaris Primary School Sustainability Captains will present a short film showcasing our sustainable practices which have gained us our 5 Star Resource Smart Sustainable School accreditation. This includes how we minimise waste at our school by having nude food and no bins in our yard, an extensive recycling program, Power Rangers to monitor energy use reduction, timers controlling water usage and increasing biodiversity where possible. We have generated genuine cultural and behavioural change through our practices and our learning.

Carranballac College The Storyteller The future of our waterways, as envisioned by the students from the western are of Melbourne, presented by students from Carranballac College, Point Cook. A future bleak and desolate, where our wetlands haven’t been looked after and are now destroyed. This student-led vision has been developed by the Werribee River Association for the State Government’s ‘Waterways of the West’ initiative.

Spotswood Primary School The Stony Creek Contamination Do you remember the massive Footscray factory fire last year? A range of nasty chemicals burned out of control for weeks, resulting in the contamination of the nearby Stony Creek. It sadly polluted the water ways and killing much of the wildlife in the area.

St Michaels Primary School, Berwick A Better Way Imagine how it feels to be an item tossed away after its owner feels it has served its purpose, yet the object knows there could have been a better outcome… a better way. Sad, cold and discarded at the tip, objects share each others sadness at their owners carelessness.

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