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FISH & GAME’S ENVIRONMENTAL GAME PLAN
An Environmental Education Resource Teachers

Manual containing:
1 x teachers manual
12 A4 Activity Cards
1 x video with film clips on Introduced Species to NZ.
Salmon in Rivers/Weather patterns, Trout and Canada Geese
1 x Paradise Duck silhouette
1 x Paradise Duck Scale Chart
1 x fuzzy wuzzy fly – mounted
3 x copies each of pamphlets: NZ Waterfowl, NZ Freshwater Sports Fish and Sportsfish Poster

The Fish & Game New Zealand Cross-curriculum Environmental Resource Kit is targeted to Years 7 & 8, but is also useful for years below and above that. It was developed with the Dunedin College of Education.

The main curriculum areas covered are:

• Environmental Education
• Science
• Social Studies & Technology
• With links that can be made to: Mathematics, English and Art

Teachers’ comments that have assessed the kit in the classroom include:

What I like is that it is totally New Zealand material and that it sequences into the curriculum areas very well. For example, my class will be visiting Tiritiri Matangi and the kit will perfectly ack our visit up, far more than any other material presently available to me.

I like the fact that it takes a holistic view of the sustainability of hunting and fishing. The sustainable management aspects come over as being from a balanced and well-informed point of view.

The lesson plans give scope for the individual teacher’s input, and are a guide rather than a step-by-step plan.

AN EXAMPLE OF HOW YOU COULD USE THE KIT IN YOUR CLASSROOM

Trout – a web of relationships

Resources (referred to in this presentation)

• Fish and Game sheets: Looking after the Edges; Life in the Pomaka
• Fish and Game booklet: Big Goldfish in a City Pond p. 21; Freshwater Streams p. 36;

What are you using p. 29.

• Ministry of Education Building Science Concepts: Life Histories
• Wai Care manual

Specific Learning Outcomes

• Life history of trout
•  Adaptations of trout and stream invertebrates
•  Classification (using simple pictorial key)
•  Ecological inter-relationships/food web
• Measuring (and averages, graphs..)

Activity
1. Fresh, intact trout placed on tray
2. Discuss features and touch? etc
3. Open the trout to examine gut contents (float inverts in water, possibly place the petri
dish on the OHT)
4. Use the gut contents to demonstrate the sorting process
5. Provide additional bugs, Petri dishes and hand lenses to teachers for simulated gut
content sorting
6. Create a fly based on any of the bugs collected (need pictures of adult stage of mayfly
too??)
7. Catch a fish. Attach a magnet to their hook/fly and “fish” for a trout
8. Other aspects (the Auckland scene.)
Pest fish - look at Gambusia
Talk about water monitoring (pollution) and stream bank planting (habitat restoration)

To order the Fish & Game New Zealand Cross-curriculum Environmental Resource Kit,
please phone or email Fish & Game NZ on:
Tel: 64 9 499 4767 Fax: 64 9 499 4768 email: reception@fishandgame.org.nz