Primary School Water Education Program
The Environmental Education team has designed a new and innovative primary school program focused on water conservation and education. The program is tailored to address syllabus links in the NSW curriculum for Stage 3 Science Digital Technologies, and Stage 3 Maths Whole Numbers 2 and Data 1.
Mardi Dam Virtual Tour
Explore our new immersive, interactive 360 degree virtual reality experience. Go behind-the-scenes on a tour of Mardi Dam and our Water Treatment Plant to discover the processes that provide the Central Coast with clean, safe drinking water. Best viewed through virtual reality glasses but can also be viewed from any device with the Google Chrome internet browser.
Working With Water Game
Can you keep the Coast supplied with drinking water through flood, fire, drought? Quench the thirst of our growing population with the brand new Working with Water game. It’s hours of Sim-city style fun as you battle to keep the water flowing despite natural disasters, equipment failures, busy tourist seasons, property booms and more.
Play now in browser Download on the App Store Get it on Google Play
School Water Conservation Brochure
Primary School Water Education Program
The Environmental Education team has designed a new and innovative primary school program focused on water conservation and education. The program is tailored to address syllabus links in the NSW curriculum for Stage 3 Science Digital Technologies, and Stage 3 Maths Whole Numbers 2 and Data 1.
Smart Water Data Logger
Would your school like to see how much water is being used or lost each day and night? Central Coast Council is providing a FREE Smart Water Data Logger installation to schools for up to two months. Schools will also get curriculum linked educational resources and two poster size graphs for collecting data.
Please contact us and a Central Coast Council Environmental Education Officer will be in touch.
Water Audit Activity
How does your school use water? Students are challenged to investigate how and where your school uses the most water.
Drain or not to Drain
How does soil impact our water on the Central Coast? Students experiment with three types of soil to understand this interaction.
The Drip Trip
This activity provides an interactive immersion into how the Central Coast Water Supply works. Students become experts in various components of the water supply system while adding their specific items to the diagram along the way.
Waterwise Garden
Students get to measure, audit and collect data about the water efficiency of the gardens at school. How waterwise is your schools garden? Let’s dig in!
Running Dry
Groundwater bores are used all around Australia to access water. Students get to use a simulation to learn more about bores and the potential impacts on the environment.
