Water quality
This resources looks at what the qualities of 'healthy water' are and how maintaining the quality of water is crucial for a healthy environment, agriculture, and communities.
Water availability in Australia
This activity asks students to explore what factors influence water availability in Australia and what are the effects of limited water and what are some of the management options available to us?
Influences on the water cycle
This lesson incorporates a range of practical activities that allow students to explore how the water cycle operates at different scales and across diverse environments, and how it is shaped by factors such as location, temperature, and topography.
Kangaroo Beach
Kangaroo Beach is an animated series where four animal friends train as junior lifeguards, learning essential beach safety skills. The show, produced by Cheeky Little Media for ABC, integrates fun storytelling with vital water safety messages in each episode. Accompanying educational resources, including activity sheets and posters, are available for download to reinforce these safety lessons.
Coral reefs and climate change
The individual, classroom, lab and field activities are designed for high school and early tertiary level students, and anyone interested in exploring coral reefs, climate change and sustainable living in more detail. Some activities make use of the Coral Health Chart. Additional virtual tools provide an opportunity to learn more about coral bleaching and active monitoring. Virtual tools can be used to prepare for a field trip or as a valuable alternative to a field trip. Away from the reef
Marine Systems – connections and change
CoralWatch has developed various lessons for Unit 3, Marine Science (2019), General Senior Syllabus. This comprehensive collection of lessons and supporting materials focused on understanding coral reef ecosystems, threats to coral health, and techniques for monitoring reef condition. It includes classroom and field-based activities as well as data interpretation worksheets that help students practise real scientific methods. The resource is intended to help build both scientific literacy and environmental stewardship, showing young learners how reefs are studied and what actions
Corals at Your Doorstep (Moreton Bay, QLD)
The lessons and resources of this 'Corals at Your Doorstep' booklet are developed for high schools in the Moreton Bay area and is part of the CoralWatch 'Moreton Bay Education Package'. The lessons and activities in the booklet are aimed at year 7 Science.
Marine Ecosystems
This resource is a curriculum-linked guide for Year 7 Science students that provides lessons, activities and virtual tools to help learners understand coral biology, reef health, threats like bleaching, and how to monitor coral using the Coral Health Chart. It also includes worksheets and field-oriented tasks that allow students to collect, interpret and analyse real or virtual data about reefs. Finally, it emphasises sustainable practices and community involvement, offering students ways to take action locally to protect reef ecosystems.
Corals are Cool and Crucial
Students will explore the importance of the Great Barrier Reef and local reefs, investigating the coral lifecycle and the ways ocean life depends on interconnected relationships for survival. They will examine the threats posed by climate change and other human impacts, and discover how citizen scientists contribute valuable data on coral health. Through hands-on practice with virtual tools, students will monitor, collect, and analyse coral data. Finally, they will identify sustainable actions they can take in their daily lives and