Wanda the Water Droplet

'Wanda' is the star character of a new curriculum project TMI is working on in collaboration with The Scots College. Scots is a boys’ school in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs that also has a 300 hectare active learning campus called Bannockburn on the NSW South Coast. Scots is breaking ground by establishing Australia’s first Regenerative Environmental Science program for Years 1 to 10, with the first modules being taught this year. 

Carolyn Hall and Laura Fisher have been working with Kym McMaster, the coordinator of Experiential Education at Bannockburn, and with illustrator Melinda Turnbull, to develop content for the Year 2 program, ‘The Water Story’. Across a series of storyboards, students will accompany the adventurous Wanda through the water cycle as she plays her part as an elemental force shaping the planet. As the story goes, Wanda is now moving too fast, rushing down the eroded gullies of our farms and across the concrete surfaces of our cities. She looks forward to a time when humanity has a lighter impact on the earth, so she can be part of thriving, rehydrated landscapes and move at a more leisurely pace.

This project has been assisted by the NSW Government through its Environmental Trust.