Learn the ins and outs of a bug hotel, how to plant native grasses and shrubs, upcycle a jar into a rain gauge and more.
Explore the benefits of insects in helping to pollinate plants, and learn how to make a bug hotel to encourage more insects into your garden. Barwon Water shows you how.
Audience: Primary students (with adult help), secondary students and adults
Learn how to select and
plant native and indigenous plants in your garden to improve the biodiversity
of insects and native fauna that visit your patch.
Audience: Primary students
A perfect rainy-day
activity from East Gippsland Water. Make a rain gauge from a jar and measure
how much rain you collect.
Audience: Primary students, all ages
Healesville Sanctuary Vet, Kath, will show you the best way to leave water out for local wildlife during the summer months.
You’ll also find more tips for helping local wildlife in summer from Victoria Zoos.
Audience: Primary students, all ages
Important: Suggested audience provided intended as a guide only. We
recommend adults including teachers, parents and carers preview resources to
ensure suitability. Please ensure children are adequately supervised when
participating in these activities.
Gippsland Water supplies fresh clean drinking water to more than 70,000 customers, and wastewater services to more than 63,000 customers across an area of more than 5,000 square kilometres. It maintains a $1 billion infrastructure network, which includes more than 2,000 kilometres of water mains, 15 water treatment plants, over 1,700 kilometres of sewer mains and 14 wastewater treatment plants.
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Did you know that you can access free tap water at refill locations across the Latrobe Valley?
Find out more55 Hazelwood Road, Traralgon, VIC, 3844
Phone: 1800 050 500
Fax: (03) 5174 0103
Interpreter service: 1313 450
TTY: 1800 555 677
Email: contactus@gippswater.com.au