Sustainable Seafood in Australia
This site provides student worksheets with interactive videos, multimedia content, real-world case studies, differentiated activities, and a printable “Find Your Career in the Seafood Industry” poster, all aligned with the Australian Curriculum, to showcase career opportunities, sustainability efforts, and technological advancements in Australia’s aquaculture and wild-catch fishing industries.
NSW Seafood Industry Partnership in Schools (SIPS 2030)
This lesson series on sustainable NSW seafood provides students with adaptable resources, including worksheets, activities and videos, to support learning and build a critical understanding of sustainable fishing practices.
The Yabby Unit
This unit of work provides students with the opportunity to investigate the importance of aquaculture production to our society. It integrates content from multiple contexts, aquaculture, aquaponics and digital technologies.
Fish – aquaculture
This page provides guidance for NSW schools on the management, care and welfare of aquaculture fish, including animal welfare standards, required approvals and practical considerations for keeping and using fish for teaching.
High Schools – Get Hooked
Get Hooked… Fish for Life, a versatile teaching resource designed for high schools across New South Wales. This program supports interdisciplinary learning in Geography, Science, and Marine and Aquaculture Technology. Teachers can choose from a range of topics across four dedicated units, allowing for tailored lessons that cater to diverse classroom needs and interests.
The Solitary Islands Marine Park Education Kit
The primary aim of this kit is to provide a structured, curriculum-based education resource for primary school students that teaches them about the marine environment, marine protected areas, conservation values and management, the importance of near-shore habitats, and the sustainable use of these habitats and marine resources by traditional Aboriginal custodians through four modules.
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
Healthy reefs – from polyp to policy
A 10-week unit plan containing lessons and activities that allow students to explore the definitions and determinants of reef health from how the biology of corals is influenced by the environment, through to local and regional approaches to management of reef threats. The unit plan can be used as a full block, or flexible, to suit your needs. Topics covered include coral biology, marine biodiversity, reef habitats, health of reefs, local and global threats, marine management, sustainability, citizen science, marine