Reef Rangers
Primary and Middle School
In this Reef HQ Education Program, students will take on the role of "Reef Rangers". They will investigate a range of the human impacts that affect marine ecosystems, and in particular the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Students will pursue investigations about the ways we all can try to minimise these human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef.
Curriculum links
Completing this Reef HQ Education Program will develop students' ability to:
- Create and undertake plans that aim to influence decisions about an element of the Great Barrier Reef;
- Cooperatively collect and analyse data;
- Describe the values underlying personal and other people's actions regarding the Great Barrier Reef;
- Make justifiable links between ecological and economic factors and the production and consumption of a familiar resource;
- Predict the impact of environmental change by comparing evidence;
- Draw conclusions about the relationship between features of living things and the environments in which they live;
- Describe some interactions between living things and between living and non-living parts of the environment; and
- Design and create a model environment, which meets the needs of living things within it.
The following unit includes suggestions for activities that can be completed before and after your Reef HQ visit.
Reef HQ Visit
This teacher resource is linked to a class visit to Reef HQ. The Reef HQ visit will enable students to formulate answers to the following questions:
- What and where is the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park?
- How and why do humans use its resources?
- What are the major human impacts?
- How do these impacts affect the organisms that inhabit the reef ecosystem?
- What effects might these impacts have on humans? and
- What could or should be done to reduce the negative impacts of humans?
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Interconnection - Challenge Activity
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Junior Aquarist - Challenge Activity
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Reef Rangers - Teaching Unit
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Reef Rangers Certificate
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Sustainable Fishing - Challenge Activity
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