Wet and Wild
Stage 3
2026 Theme: My Wet and Wild Kitchen Rules
Plants and animals have interesting names.... This year our clues will guide you on a gastronomic quest around Australia to identify animals and plants with names related to food!
Clues will be available to download from 10am each Monday morning. Please submit your answers by lunchtime each Friday using the answer proforma. The scoretable will be updated on Tuesdays.
The challenge
Wet & Wild is a research challenge for Stage 3 level 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 organisms. They may be plants, birds, animals or insects.
The challenge runs for four weeks in Term 1, weeks 6- 9.
Students may participate in class teams or group teams within a class, but each school is limited to three teams only.
To register your teams please click on the link.
This year's competition:
Check out past clues to see what it's like!
FAQ
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How do we return the answers?
Use the proforma to complete your answers.
Email back to awabakal-e.school@det.nsw.edu.au by 12 noon on Friday each week.
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How is it marked?
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).
If you have questions or to register teams, please contact the centre.