AuSSI Stormwater Audit (Upper Primary)

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Geography Year 5:

• Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary and secondary sources (ACHASSI095)
• Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions (ACHASSI105)
• Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects (ACHASSI104)

Geography Year 6:

• Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary and secondary sources (ACHASSI123)
• Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions (ACHASSI133)
• Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects (ACHASSI132)

Cross curriculum priorities:

Sustainability – OI.1 – The biosphere is a dynamic system providing conditions that sustain life on Earth.
General capabilities: Numeracy, Critical and creative thinking

Syllabus Outcomes: GE3-4. 

Connecting lessons: Water Use Audit – must be completed as a compulsory action.

• Student worksheet
• Internet access
• Hard copy map of the local area (ask your local council or print from Google Maps – ideally this map will have contour lines), hard copy map of your school (your school map have one you can copy or print from Google Maps)
• Factsheet – Sewage or stormwater?

This lesson can be used when working on the Water Module of ResourceSmart AuSSI Vic Certification. By completing this lesson you will have completed the following actions:

Water Checklist Compulsory Actions:

• A1.1 – Have you completed an audit to assess water usage and stormwater collection around your school?
• A1.2 Have you collected data on past water usage for at least two years?
• A1.3 Has this data been entered as your baseline data?

Checklist data goals:

• No official data goals.