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Join our Reef Guardian School team of expert marine educators for a series of free, engaging, informative webinars about the beauty and wonders of the Great Barrier Reef! We have webinars to celebrate special events including SeaWeek, World Turtle Day, World Environment Day and World Oceans Day.

Join our closed Facebook group - Reef Guardian School Educator Network. Share your school’s amazing Reef Stewardship projects and keep up to date with the latest news from the Reef Guardian School program.

Documentary Australia in collaboration with GROW Aitutaki and Aitutaki Coral Restoration & Eco Tours is documenting local coral restoration in the community of Aitutaki, Cook Islands, through the eyes of its youngest participants.

Subsidies available for school excursions completed by 31 December 2029, or until funding is fully allocated.
Find out more visit the link http://www.qldeducationexperiences.org.au/great-barrier-reef-experience/

We are taking a short break from the 25 December 2025 to 1 January 2026. We wish you a happy festive season and look forward to working with you in 2026.

Year 6 EcoWarrior Felicity from Holland Park SS has created Reef Rivals – a powerful educational card game tackling reef threats like pollution, climate change and marine debris. Her game is now inspiring students globally, with copies reaching schools in Spain, Indonesia, Bundaberg, Brisbane and beyond! 🌊🌏
A brilliant example of entrepreneurial sustainability in action.
Congratulations Felicity—your ripple effect is reaching reefs and classrooms everywhere!

In late 2024, our non-profit organisation completed a series of coral surveys in the Whitsunday Islands as part of our Reef Preservation Project.

In 2020, our organisation created its 3-level Youth Marine Conservation Program that has been conducted every year since then for students at regional Queensland Schools.

The first comprehensive natural history guide to the tropical reefs of Magnetic Island and inshore Great Barrier Reef.

Check out the Action Plan timeline from these Cook Islands reef heroes!

Challenge 8. Working in small groups, create a skit of a superhero adopting simple everyday actions to protect reefs. Record the skit and submit a video for judging.

Challenge 3. Make a micro-museum of three coastal ecosystems and produce a short video to explain how they are interconnected.

Challenge 7. Research the different zones in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and the types of fishing activities allowed in each. Zone your classroom and make a short video of your students explaining the fishing rules for each zone.

Challenge 6. Design artwork for a drain in your school that brings attention to the issue of litter that makes it's way through waterways and becomes marine debris. Take a photo of your finished artwork and include an artist's statement.

Challenge 5. Water quality is declining on the Great Barrier Reef. Write a short newsreel and record yourself as the presenter explaining how water gets contaminated as it flows from land to sea, and how this can affect marine life and the environment.

Challenge 5. Water quality is declining on the Great Barrier Reef. Write a short newsreel and record yourself as the presenter explaining how water gets contaminated as it flows from land to sea, and how this can affect marine life and the environment.

Challenge 4. Research one of the reefs "Great 8" animals and create an A4 colour brochure to encourage tourists to visit the Great Barrier Reef.

Challenge 3. Make a micro-museum of three coastal ecosystems and produce a short video to explain how they are interconnected.

Challenge 1. Create a design for a polo shirt, cap or hat with a protected species as the focus. Submit an Artist statement with your design.

Challenge 2. Create a water compass and make a short video of yourself explaining how sea turtles use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate between their feeding and nesting areas.

Challenge 1. Create an artwork for a polo shirt, cap or hat using a protected species as your focal point. Include an artists statement with your submission.