2015 Portland, Victoria, Australia
Students from Bayview College in Portland were finalists in the 2015 Caring for our Watersheds competition, with their proposal called Environmental Empowerment.
Nathalia Crowe, Meg Saunders, Marlie Malone & Sarra Hill came up with an Environmental Education Program to teach younger students about their environment. They collaborated all their classes’ final ideas for the 2015 CFW competition into one educational program to raise awareness about their classes concerns.
They held a kids teaching kids day with the year 7 students at Bayview College running a range of environmental activities which focused on:
- Overfishing
- Biodiversity in our backyards
- Litter and recycling
- Water pollution
- Local lagoon.
With constructive feedback from the year 7s the girls now plan to implement the program into the local primary schools as well.
This program is not only a fun filled day of environmental activities but it is teaching younger generations to care more for what is around them and how to look after their catchments environment now and into the future.