School Excursion

Year 9 students from Shelford Girls Grammar sampling the water at the Jock Marshall Reserve

Once you have booked a school excursion, use the documents and resources on this page to plan a unit of work around the excursion. Students may also use the resources to assist them in completing a school based project on water science.

Teacher and Student Booklets

Teacher Booklet - to be used by teachers to implement a unit of work around the excrusion including pre and post excursion activities (pdf 1.4Mb ).   

Student Booklets - to be used by the students during the excursion to assit them in sampling, testing and recording of data (pdf 1.34 Mb). Please photocopy and bring along a copy for each student to the excursion.

Resources

These resources may be downloaded and used to help you with your own water science project at school.

Click here to see an overview of the JMR system.

• Fact Sheet 1 - Streams and Rivers (pdf 120kb).
• Fact Sheet 2 - How Rivers Change (pdf 77kb).
• Fact Sheet 3 - Introduction to Water Quality (pdf 56kb).
• Fact Sheet 4 - Effects of Urbanisation (pdf 77kb).
• Fact Sheet 5 - JMR and Area History (pdf 659kb).
• Table A – Land Use Effects on Water Chemistry (pdf 101kb).
• Invertebrate Classification Key (pdf 75.2kb).
• Taxonomic Classification Key (pdf 56.8kb ).

Click here for a map of the JMR.

Student Project Examples

The following are projects from past students who have been on the water science program and completed their own projects. They are in image and powerpoint format. If you want to submit your own project for inclusion on this website, please contact us at the Monash Science Centre.  

• Project 1, powerpoint file ( ppt 849kb).
• Project 2, powerpoint file (pptx 2.2Mb).
• Project 3, powerpoint file (ppt 1.4Mb).
• Project 4, image file (jpg 2.7Mb).
• Project 5, image file (jpg 2.8Mb ).