Come on a journey from a raindrop to our rivers. Discover the different natural features that water provides including the animals and plants that live in and around it. Find out why it is so important and how to look after it.
Make all these discoveries through exciting craft and science activities and a trip through the customary tunnel .
The Lincoln High School Sustainability Council have devised several craft activities and simple science experiments for our annual KidsFest Event. This year children are invited to explore fresh water through hands on interactive craft and science, they will learn about the life to be found on and in our water and the importance of this precious resource. This craft morning is truly a community experience with the older students getting as much out of it through their organizing and mentoring as the younger ones doing the activities and the learning.
Please stay home if you have cold/flu like symptoms.
Lincoln Envirotown Trust has prided itself as a provider of free or koha events to make them accessible for all members of the community. However, due to the high numbers attending this event in recent years we now charge for tickets to this event so that it remains enjoyable and safe for all.
$3 – $5 $3 allows entry up to 2 people including caregiver. $5 allows entry up to 4 people including caregiver.
Contact Lincoln Envirotown Trust
+64 3 423 0445
projectmanagerlet@gmail.com
Lincoln Event Centre
15 Meijer Drive Lincoln,
Canterbury
7608New Zealand+ Google Map
Lincoln Envirotown are lucky enough to be joined every year by Waterwatch, Wai Kaitiaki to test the water in the Liffey Stream in Lincoln. The event, is organised with three school levels (Pre-school, Primary School, and High School) and each group had its own set of activities all aimed at maintaining an awareness of keeping our environment as pristine as possible.
Kidsfirst Lincoln set about picking up as much rubbish as can be found on the domain surrounding the upper Liffey River. The rubbish collected is then carefully sorted into yellow, green or red buckets.
The Enviro Group from the Primary Schools assess the water quality by collecting water from the river and seeing what tiny living creatures are there (indicator invertebrates). They are also shown how to test water health by measuring oxygen levels with the equipment and expertise provided by Waterwatch. The High School arrive last and complete the more elaborate testing on the river water, the results of which are shown below.
Whilst all the activities are pursued with enthusiasm and interest, it is fair to say that the most interest and enthusiasm is reserved for the sausages that Lincoln New World traditionally provide and cook for us. These are very much enjoyed after everyone has endeavored, in their own small way, to keep a part of New Zealand beautiful.
During Keep New Zealand Beautiful Clean Up Week in September we headed along to the Liffey River for a variety of activities.
We joined the many groups and organisations around New Zealand who during this one week in September hold events to remind us that New Zealand must be kept beautiful by us all.
The event, as usual, was organised with three school levels
(Pre-school, Primary School, and High School) and each group had its own set of
activities all aimed at maintaining an awareness of keeping our environment as
pristine as possible.
The pre-school set about picking up as much rubbish as could be found. Gloves and bags were provided by the Keep New Zealand Beautiful organisers and the rubbish collected was carefully sorted. Many items were in fact recyclable or able to be upcycled and did not have to add to any landfill.
A small group from the primary school were shown by Waterwatch how to collect water from the stream and look for tiny creatures that live in the water and how they can be an indicator of water quality. The High School arrived later and did more elaborate testing on the river water finding, as is too usual these days, a high level of nitrates. Click to see the full results.
Whilst all the activities were pursued with enthusiasm and
interest, it is fair to say that the most interest and enthusiasm were reserved
for the sausages that Lincoln New World traditionally provide and cook for us.
These were very much enjoyed after everyone had endeavoured, in their own small
way, to keep a part of New Zealand beautiful.
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