H20 Heroes Programme

The following workshops are offered by the H2O Heroes team and can be facilitated in DkIT or in your school.

The H2O Heroes Environmental Education programme here at DkIT is co-ordinated by Caroline Gilleran Stephens and Suzanne Linnane from the Centre for Freshwater and Environmental Studies FES and has a number of exciting hands-on workshops available.

H2O Heroes is suitable for 3rd to 5th primary school children. Real life environmental scientists will take the children on a journey of their local river catchment. During the session the children get to carry out real life experiments including water chemistry and get to take a close look at some of the live macroinvertebrates living in their local river. 
H2O ‘mini’ Heroes is suitable for Junior Infants to 1st class primary school children. Children get to play visual and tactile games to discover their local river and get to meet some of the live macroinvertebrates that live there by exploring a river sample. Children will be able to create their very own type of macroinvertebrate or ‘Spudbug’ from potatoes and take it home.