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A Water colour of Tempe from the Cooks River Painted by Conrad Martens in 1845

This unit provides opportunities for students to explore concepts of belonging to places. The unit focuses on the students’ local community and local area, and provides opportunities for learning experiences about community, environment and place.

The following links will take you to resources which explore this theme and provide information.

Resources on the Web

• Canterbury Council Website on the Cooks River Portal
• Traditional Aboriginal use of the Cook River
• Wikipedia has an excellent article with lots of high resoultion pictures
• 2007 Fauna Study
• Cooks River Health Report Card
• What is a National Park Teaching Kit
• Ecotude A tool for measuring the environmental footprint of your school
• Biodiversity for Kids Education Kit
• Wolli Creek Valley Website
• Wolli Birds beautiful set of photos
• Wolli Birds great weblog
• Virtual  Tour of the Wolli Creek Valley
• Wildlife of Sydney Fact File
• Pictorial Canterbury  An amazing collection of images historical and current of the canterbury region
• Frogs and Toads of Sydney great information and slideshow
• Saving Water Interactive House
• Learn about greenhouse with ABC game site Planet Slayer
• Posters and other resources relating to pollution
• Illustrated list of plants of the Cooks River
• Check out Fantastic panoramic images of the river here

Read Anthony Albanese’s Speech on the Cook River

Cooks River: Our Heritage, Our Future