Teacher Notes
This Web Quest is targeted at the Middle School but could also be completed by Senior Secondary students.
Completing this Web Quest will develop students' ability to:
- Recognise that the characteristics of different living things are adaptations to different environments;
- Understand that interactions occur between living things and between living things and their environment;
- Appreciate that living things have external and internal structures which enable them to survive and reproduce in their environment;
- Understand that the survival of living things is determined by interactions which occur within and between systems in living things;
- Realise that many sorts of change can have short and long-term impacts on the survival of living things as well as the ecosystems in which they live;
- Establish links between ecological and economic factors; and
- Identify some of the cultural connections between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and sharks and rays.
Key Learning Areas:
- Science
- Studies of Society and the Environment
- English
- The Arts
- Information Technology
Key Competencies:
- Collecting, analysing and organising information
- Communicating ideas and information
- Planning and organising activities
- Working with others and in teams
- Solving Problems
- Using technology
The following links may help you further develop your shark knowledge and work program:
GBR Explorer "Sharks and Rays"Ichthyology at the Florida Museum of Natural History
WildAid "The End of the Line Global Threats to Sharks"
Australian Institute of Marine Science
CRC Reef "Sharks on the Great Barrier Reef"
IUCN Species Survival Commission "Sharks and their Relatives Ecology and Conservation"
Australian Shark Assessment Report
