Waterbugs and waterways

This series of colourful activity sheets cover a range of indoor and outdoor tasks to keep students entertained, while helping them to get to know the unique species that live in their local waterways.

Learning outcomes 

• Explain what happens when people change natural places - waterways, and how they can be cared for
• Understand that different living things live in different places, for example, land and water
• Explore the different features of waterway species

Activities 

Activity 1: Wonderful Waterbugs

Go on a waterbug hunt and get students to draw what they find.  

Activity 2: Waterway treasure hunt 

Use all your senses to undertake a waterway treasure hunt. 

Activity 3: Water hero 

Join the lines to match the ways you can help protect our rivers and creeks from pollution. 

Victorian Curriculum v2.0 

Science: VC2S2U01, VC2S2U02 

Geography: VC2HG2K05