Wet & Wild 2022 has moved!
Sorry for the redirect but the Wet & Wild Challenge is running just on our other website! We have some exciting things happening at our two schools and moving to one website is just one of them.
Follow the link to Awabakal Environmental Education Centre. Click on the Additional Programs tab and that's were you will find it!
Good luck to all our teams.
The challenge
Wet & Wild is a research challenge for Stage 3 students, which integrates technology, research and language skills in the areas of Geography and Science. Students from around the state compete and are challenged to find the names of 16 organisms using mixed up sets of clues over four weeks.
Each Monday, students download 24 clues related to a wetland theme. The students will have until Friday to sort the clues to find and match with four wetland organisms. They may be plants, birds, animals or insects.
The following week the results are published on this page. The challenge goes for four weeks.
- Term 3: Weeks 2, 3, 4 and 5
Students may participate in class teams or group teams within a class, but each school is limited to three teams only.
Check out the past clues.
Clues 2021
Week 1 clues
Week 2 clues
Week 3 clues
Week 4 clues
Answers
Use the proforma to return your answers.
Email back to wetlands-e.school@det.nsw.edu.au by 12 noon on Friday each week.
Please help:
We ask for your help to speed up marking. We are teachers too and mark over the weekend.
1. Have your clues in by the deadline, 12 noon each Friday.
2. Please put them in numerical order on the answer sheet.
The easier you make it on the markers the quicker the scores and answers will be posted. Thank you
Marking
Total each week of 40 marks.
4 marks for a correct animal or plant common name.
If that is correct, then 1 mark for each correct clue.
The species has to be correct for the clues to be marked. Each clue can only be used once.
A team may get a species correct but not all the clues (4 marks for the species and then up to 6 marks for the correct clues).
Super Stars
Many species have similar common names. To add to the challenge you can submit the scientific name as proof that you have done your research, just like a scientist.
If the team does submit all the correct scientific names and clues they get their name on the Super Star list on the website but no extra marks.
Those teams that get the common names and clues all correct are also listed on the website.
HOWEVER there is a risk; if a team have a correct common name but use the incorrect scientific name eg for an overseas species or one that lives in a different location, the team get no points as it is the incorrect species.
We have set it that way so teachers can choose which degree of difficulty their students may wish to compete at.
The correct answers for each session will be published here on completion of marking.
Week 1 Answers
Week 2 Answers
Week 3 Answers
Week 4 Answers
Team progressive scores
If your team does not have a score beside your name we have not received your entry (or oops we have made a mistake). Please send us an email to check.
Score table week 4
CONGRATULATIONS! The following teams had a perfect score for the Challenge.
160 Point Super Stars
Bundanoon Public School - Saltwater Crocodiles
160 Points - All correct
Matthew Pearce Public School - MPPS OC team
Woohoo!
40 point Super Stars this week- All correct including scientific names.
Bundanoon Public School - Kookaburras
- Saltwater Crocodiles
Calare Public School - Year 6
Dobroyd Point Public School - Dobroyd Detectives
Dungowan Public School - Dungowan Detectives
Hornsby Heights Public School - Desert Rain Frog
Jilliby Public School - Habitat Helpers 1
- Habitat Helpers 2
Mayfield West Demonstration School - Best in the West
- 5/6 RP
Niangala Public School - Niangala Sustainability Ninjas
North Rocks Public School - Conservationists
- Ecologists
Oatley Public School - 4/5 R Rockets
Parks East Public School - 5/6 O
Rutherford Public School - Nature Ninjas
40 points - All correct.
Matthew Pearce Public School - MPPS OC team
Oatley Publis School - Funstars
- Super Stars
Sylvania Heights Public School - Diamonds