March Monitoring Month and Koura Kraze 2008

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Waterways are a great context for teaching and learning and to encourage you to take the plunge in the first term we have compiled a list of ideas and activities for you to look over and use with your classes. There is a wealth of on-line information and ideas to help get you started.

MMM activities have been grouped as

  • Starters – ones that are useful as introductory activities and for  developing skills
  • Follow – ups – where data is processed and interpreted and informed decisions may be made.
  • Download the March Montioring Month / Koura Kraze flyer to put up around your school.

Please use the list as a kete of activities to dip into and use as it suits you; we hope you will be encouraged to explore further possibilities for yourself through links to URL’s.

We still have class sets of NWP Pollution Detectives stickers available - if you would like some for your class please email  emap@rsnz.org

Thanks to Andrew Jenks (Wild About New Zealand) for initial assistance with the development of this material.


Koura Kraze Click Here

Supporting March Monitoring Month again this year is the Koura Kraze activity where we encourage you to report details on any koura that you find when out searching for macroinvertebrates.  Koura are endemic to New Zealand and are also a species under threat.  Our aim is to map all the koura found on a map of New Zealand to look at their distribution and compare koura from a year to year basis.

For all activities there are some awesome prizes up for grabs thanks to the BOC and Scitech NZ. For more information on how to win a prize click here.


Finally, please remember World Water Day on March 22.  We hope that you will encourage your students to become Pollution Detectives around that time and to make use of either the NWP or GLOBE database where the data gathered can be entered and stored for future reference.

If you have any questions about any of these activites please do not hesitate to contact your local EMAP coordinator in your region or email emap@rsnz.org.  Contact details are provided on the Contact page.