🔎 Part 1: Investigate the Map

Study the local stream or wetland map provided by your teacher. Use map evidence in your answers.

1. Name the waterway or wetland shown on the map. Identify one place that is upstream and one place that is downstream.

2. Identify one possible pollution source shown on or near the map. What evidence helped you identify it?

3. How could pollution from this source travel into the waterway?

4. Which observations would provide useful evidence about water quality? Select all that apply.

Water clarity or colour

Rubbish or unusual smells

Plants and animals present

The number of houses in the whole region

🌿 Part 2: Explain the Impacts

5. Which living things could be affected by the pollution you identified? Choose one plant or animal and explain why.

6. Complete the cause-and-effect chain: pollution source → change in the water → impact on living things.

7. What further evidence would you collect to test whether your suspected pollution source is affecting the waterway?

🛡️ Part 3: Design a Kaitiakitanga Action Plan

Design a practical action that helps protect or restore the local waterway. Consider who will take action, what they will do, and how success will be measured.

8. Draw and label your proposed action. Include the waterway, the problem, and how your action will help.

9. Write a persuasive statement encouraging people to support your action. Use scientific evidence from your investigation.

10. How will you monitor whether your action is successful? Name one measurement or observation and describe what change you would expect.

Local Waterway Kaitiakitanga Plan

Local Waterway Kaitiakitanga Plan

🔎 Part 1: Investigate the Map

🌿 Part 2: Explain the Impacts

🛡️ Part 3: Design a Kaitiakitanga Action Plan

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