Healthy Waterways   Education

Education

The following pages provide information on water education in South East Queensland including:

  • a list of local curriculum aligned water education packages
  • links to water education materials including online games and videos and topics such as aquatic pests, cultural heritage and stormwater management
  • teaching resources for water quality monitoring

The Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program web pages have clickable maps which give you catchment facts, downloadable maps/diagrams and links to Partner websites (such as local councils) that contain waterway information.

The resources webpage also has links to fact sheets, conceptual diagrams of many catchments in the region and detailed maps of streams and catchments.

 

Water by Design training courses and guidelines

The Water by Design Program provides a range of training courses and guidelines to support industry implementation of best practice water sensitive urban design.

Currently there are ten multi-disciplinary courses available.  They are as follows:

Download a course brochure

 

Water educators and communicators of South East Queensland (SUCCESS network)

The objective of SUCCESS is to actively foster collaborative and cooperative partnerships between key stakeholders in South East Queensland to improve the delivery of water and catchment education.
 
The SUCCESS network has meetings around the region for water educators and communicators to meet, share ideas and resources, collaborate on projects and promote activities. These meetings are held approximately every two months.

This growing group includes teachers and teacher trainers, staff at environmental education centres, water educators with government, industry, council and water utilities, and community catchment group representatives.

For more information contact sharon.marks@healthywaterways.org

Previous editions of the SUCCESS email newsletter

2010   2009
Issue #12 - 8 February 2010        Issue #1 - 5 March 2009          
Issue #13 - 26 February 2010Issue #2 - 20 March 2009
Issue #14  - 30 March 2010Issue #3 - 9 April 2009
Issue #15 - 5 May 2010 Issue #4 - 7 May 2009
Issue #16 - 9 June 2010
Issue #5 - 26 May 2009
 Issue #6 - 12 June 2009
 Issue #7 - 20 July 2009
 Issue #8 - 11 August 2009
 Issue #9 - 7 September 2009
 Issue#10 - 27 October 2009
 Issue#11 - 27 November 2009