Reef Health Education Package

Introductory Notes

• • Read This First
  • Production notes
  • Foreward by S.A. Shepherd AO
  • Acknowledgements
  • Disclaimer and copyright

Course Material

Primary years (1 - 5)

1. Introducing and exploring reefs

• • Classification of reef organisms
    • Classification
    • How many?
  • Reef Ecology
    • Food chains and webs?
    • Seastar experiences?
    • Seawater experiments?
  • What is a temperate reef?
    • Algae?
    • Read about reefs?
    • What does a healthy reef look like??
    • What are temperate and tropical??

2. Temperate reefs & humans

• • How we affect reefs?
  • Why are reefs important??

3. Protecting temperate reefs

• • Marine environmental management
    • Measuring a reef?
  • What can you and your school do to help reefs
    • Marine education in South Australian schools?
    • What schools can do?
    • What you can do to help?

Middle years (6 - 8)

1. Introducing and exploring reefs

• • Classification of reef organisms
    • Molluscs?
    • Fish gills?
    • Crustacean biology?
    • Classification?
  • Reef Ecology
    • Seastar feeding (content knowledge only)?
    • Food webs?
    • Fish cleaning?
    • Seawater experiments?
    • Camouflage?
  • What is a temperate reef?
    • Algae?
    • Temperate and tropical reefs?
    • What does a temperatereef look like??
      

2. Temperate reefs & humans

• • How we affect reefs?
  • Why are reefs important??
  • Research project and values analysis?
  • English?

3. Protecting temperate reefs

• • Marine environmental management
    • Measuring a reef?
    • Protecting temperate reefs?
  • What can you and your school do to help reefs
    • Marine education in South Australian schools?
    • What schools can do?
    • What you can do to help?

Senior years (9 - 10)

1. Introducing and exploring reefs

• • What is a temperate reef? (background)?
  • What does a temperate reef look like??
  • Information extraction and representation activity?
  • Maths?
  • English?
  • Science
    • Temperate reef fish?
    • Other marine invertebrates?
    • Molluscs?
    • Crustacean biology?
    • Algae?
    • Abiotic factors shaping reef communities?

2. Temperate reefs & humans

• • Maths?
  • Science?
  • SOSE?

3. Protecting temperate reefs

• • Maths and science?
  • SOSE?

Reference material and other resources

• • Photos
  • Data files
  • Papers?
  • Glossary
  • SACSA links?
  • Weblinks and other resources