Western Treatment Plant Explorer : Teacher Resources : Resource List
Resource List
The resources have been grouped under common themes for ease of use.
| Title | Type | Description | Download | |
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| Introduction | ||||
| 1 | Melbourne Water and the Western Treatment Plant | Reading | A reading exercise about the Western Treatment Plant. |  Word.doc |
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| History and health (download  History_and_Health_all.zip, Word & pdf files) |
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| 2 | Melbourne before sewerage | Reading | A look at Melbourne in the 1800s. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 3 | The quality of drinking water | Reading | Historical reading. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 4 | A scientist's story: Lucey Alford | Reading | Read about scientist Lucey Alford. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| Suburbs (download Suburbs_all.zip, Word & pdf files) |
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| 5 | Melbourne's sewerage system | Reading & analysis | Exploring the networks. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 6 | Building a sewerage system | Model building | Building a model sewerage system. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 7 | Working in the sewers | Reading | What it is like to work in the sewers. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 8 | Sewerage in the suburbs | Analysis | Exploring the sewerage system in a suburb. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| Home (download Home_all.zip, Word & pdf files) |
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| 9 | Home drains | Activity | Exploring the sewerage system in the home. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 10 | The humble toilet | Activity | Describes how a toilet works. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 11 | The toilet trap | Activity | Experiment. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 12 | Siphoning | Activity | Experiment. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 13 | A stinky question | Interpret | Why don't toilets smell more? | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 14 | Saving water | Activity | How big is a flush? | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 15 | Engineering dunnies | Role play | Role playing an engineer. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 16 | Treat it well | Values | What should go down the toilet? | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 17 | Why toilet paper? | Activity | Test the disintegration of toilet paper. | Word.doc |
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| 18 | Toilet paper and microbes | Activity | Experiment to explore the use of toilet paper. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 19 | Pet toilets | Research | Devise a toilet for your pet. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| School | ||||
| 20 | Reviewing the school's toilets | Research | Sewerage checklist for schools. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| Exploring processes at the Western Treatment Plant (download Exploring_processes_all.zip, Word & pdf files) |
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| 21 | Methane digester | Activity | Building and observing a methane digester. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 22 | Looking at microbes | Activity | Experiment to look at microbes that can breakdown sewage in grass filtration. | Word.doc |
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| 23 | Soil filtration | Activity | Simulating land filtration. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 24 | Sludge | Activity | Exploring sludge. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| Researching (download Researching_all.zip, Word & pdf files) |
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| 25 | Building a better loo | Reading & research | Investigating composting toilets. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 26 | Birds counts at the Western Treatment Plant | Research | Data on bird life at the WTP. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 27 | Rainfall and evaporation data from the Western Treatment Plant | Research | Exploring data on climate. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 28 | Chemicals in sewage | Values | Looking at the chemicals in sewage. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| Future (download Future_all.zip, Word & pdf files) |
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| 29 | Technological advancements at the Western Treatment Plant | Analysing | New technology and approaches towards treating sewage. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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| 30 | Water Recycling | Analysing | Recycling and reusing treated sewage. | Word.doc |
| Acrobat.pdf |
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