Resources

This booklet contains a variety of activities and experiments linked to VELS; aimed at providing students with advanced knowledge about salinity and its impacts.

You may have noticed foam formations in waterways, particularly below structures such as weirs; they usually look like someone has emptied a container of detergent into the water.

Platypus and Water Rats are two of the more iconic native species that inhabit our waterways.

The Platypus is one of only five known species of monotremes, the other four are all types of echidna.

The water rat is a distinctive native rodent, specialised for an aquatic life.

Freshwater macroinvertebrates can be found in all types of water bodies across Australia, even swimming pools!