Building Climate Agency Through Ocean Literacy
This unit uses ocean literacy to help students understand climate change and its impacts on marine environments. Through engaging activities, students build climate agency and explore practical ways they can take positive action for the ocean and climate.
Unfreezing Eco-Anxiety
This unit helps students understand eco-anxiety and the emotional impacts of climate change and environmental issues. Through engaging activities and discussions, students explore practical ways to manage these feelings and turn concern into positive action.
Central Coast Marine Discovery Centre
Based in Terrigal, the Central Coast Marine Discovery Centre provides engaging marine and coastal education programs for primary and secondary students. Their hands-on fieldwork experiences allow students to investigate local ecosystems, collect scientific data, and develop a deeper understanding of marine environments. Curriculum-linked excursions are delivered by qualified educators and support learning in Science, Geography and environmental education through authentic, real-world investigations.
Port Macquarie Marine Discovery Centre
Students have hands-on opportunities to explore marine ecosystems, biodiversity, aquaculture and coastal conservation through interactive activities and live displays. Programs are available for learners from early childhood through to senior secondary and can be tailored to support a range of science and environmental learning outcomes.
Australian Sea Lion Poster
This printable Australian Sea Lion fact file serves as an informative classroom poster, introducing students to the species' biology, habitat, adaptations and conservation status through engaging facts and photographs. An excellent visual learning resource or used to support lessons on marine ecosystems, species adaptations and wildlife conservation.
Where to Find Posidonia australis
This website provides interactive tools and educational resources that help students learn how to locate and explore seagrass meadows using online maps, while developing an understanding of seagrass distribution, monitoring, and conservation.
Learning about the Water Industry in NSW
This website provides a range of curriculum-linked resources, activities, virtual learning experiences, and excursion opportunities that help students learn about water cycles, catchments, dams, waterways, and sustainable water management in Australia.
Seagrass-Watch
This website is a teaching and learning resource that helps students and teachers understand seagrass ecosystems and why they are important. It provides educational materials such as videos, activity books, posters, and teacher guides that explain seagrass biology, its role in supporting marine life, and the threats it faces from human impacts and climate change.
Myrtle’s battle against climate change
This educational story based on real research about sea turtles and the impacts of climate change in the northern Great Barrier Reef. It follows a satellite-tagged turtle named Myrtle to show how changing ocean conditions, especially warming seas and habitat loss, affect turtle survival and highlight the importance of protecting marine ecosystems.
Indigenous weather knowledge
This resource explains how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples use Indigenous seasonal calendars and environmental knowledge based on long term observation of plants, animals, and weather patterns to understand and interpret Australia’s climate and seasonal change.