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Inquiry Topics: aquatic insects, birds, Canterbury, conservation, environmental action, fresh water, future focus - sustainability, glaciation, investigating streams, lakes, plants, rivers, threatened species, water, wetlands

Wetland Treasures - Term 4, 2009

What you will do

Learn about the adaptations of special plants and animals that inhabit these wetlands. Find out what is being done to counter threats to these species and their surroundings. Study the relationship between water quality and these environments. Discover how this unique landscape has been formed by glaciation.

Where you will go

Travel to the inter montane basins of inland South Canterbury. The Hakatere Conservation Park centred on the Ashburton Lakes, was opened in October 2007. It has habitat for native fish, trout, salmon, water birds, threatened native plants and aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates. It is one of the three national Arawai Kakariki project sites focusing on the ecological restoration of the foremost wetland freshwater sites in New Zealand.

Curriculum

Science: Living World Levels 2-4

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