Threatened Species
Middle School
In this Reef HQ Education program students will investigate and discover some of the threatened species that are under pressure with the Great Barrier Reef. Through participation in a series of activities requiring examination, identification, analysis, making predictions and reflection students will gain a deeper appreciation for the issues related to threatened species in the Great Barrier Reef. Culminating in activities that promote active citizenship through community education.
Curriculum Links
Completing this Reef HQ Education Program will develop students' ability to:
- Make links between different features of the environment and the specific needs of living things;
- Make generalisations about the types of interaction which take place between living and non-living parts of the environment;
- Evaluate the consequences of interactions between humans and the reef environment;
- Examine and prepare scenarios that describe the potential long-term effects of changes in biodiversity caused by human action on ecosystems;
- Describe the values underlying personal and other people's actions regarding threatened species;
- Explain whether personal decisions about resource use and management are balanced;
- Organise data into a meaningful and useful forms; and Evaluate ideas concerning sustainability to identify costs and benefits of human use of marine resources.
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:
- Observe a highly diverse reef ecosystem;
- Observe threatened reef creatures and their peculiar behaviours;
- Observe reef creature interrelationships within the reef ecosystem;
- Investigate some of the interrelationships that exist between reef creatures;
- Appreciate the varying ecological levels within reef ecosystems;
- Develop an appreciation for the fact that all organisms (including humans) are competing for resources within the reef ecosystem;
- Understand that ecosystems and there inhabitants are put under pressure due to human impacts; and
- Create and justify proposals to minimise or resolve pressures on threatened species.
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Biodiversity & Threatened Species PDF
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Interconnection - Challenge Activity
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Threatened Species - Teaching Unit
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Water Quality - Challenge Activity
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Wheel of Misfortune - Challenge Activity
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