Spin and Splash
The Beach Safety Hub “Spin and Splash” page introduces an interactive early education program designed to teach young children about water and beach safety. The program uses engaging activities and games to help children build awareness of safe behaviours near the water. It is tailored to early learners, making safety education fun, memorable, and age-appropriate.
Beach & Ocean Safety
The Beach Safety Hub offers essential tips to help you and your family enjoy a safe day at the beach. It provides guidance on preparing for a beach visit, including checking beach conditions with the Beachsafe app, understanding hazards like rip currents and marine creatures, and packing appropriate items such as sunscreen, hats, and swimwear. The page also emphasizes the importance of swimming between the red and yellow flags, staying hydrated, and knowing how to seek help in emergencies.
Beach Safety Videos
The Beach Safety Hub page provides a collection of videos that explain safe practices for swimming, spotting rip currents, and staying safe at the beach. These resources are designed to raise awareness of common hazards and help reduce the risk of accidents or drowning. They are also available in a wide range of languages, ensuring accessibility for diverse communities.
Discover Port Phillip: Water & Wildlife Stories
Discover Port Phillip: Water & Wildlife Stories is a five-part ebook series created by the Dolphin Research Institute with support from the Port Phillip Bay Fund. These free, story-driven ebooks highlight the incredible marine life and environments of Port Phillip, aiming to connect the community with what lives in our own backyard.
Reef Guardian School
Reef Guardians curriculum aligned education resources cover a range of topics to teach and learn about the Great Barrier Reef including climate change, World Heritage and Cultural values, sustainability, wetlands, threats and biodiversity. Follow the link to find resources, including our Reef Beat poster series, unit plans, activity sheets, videos and much more!
Marine Ecosystems & Human Impacts
The Port Phillip EcoCentre provides a wide range of marine excursion activities at St Kilda Beach, St Kilda Pier and West Beach. Using Port Phillip Bay as our outdoor classroom we have a variety of hands-on activities that allow schools to tailor their excursion to match curriculum needs, inquiry topic and student projects.
Dolphin ID – A Science Skill Session
The external provider, Cetacean Science Connection, offers a session that explores the process they use as cetacean scientists to identify individual dolphins, highlighting why this is a crucial aspect of their conservation efforts.
Plastic pollution, what’s the solution?
The external provider, Cetacean Science Connection, offers an incursion that uses the design-based thinking process. In this program, students will develop solutions to reduce marine plastic pollution, whether by collecting it at the source, on the beach or in a gyre, or by changing human behaviour. This real-world STEM problem, if solved, could not only reduce the risk of injury or death to marine wildlife, but also improve the lives of coastal communities around the world.
A Porpoiseful Problem – A real-life marine STEM problem-solving session
External provider Cetacean Science Connections, uses design-based thinking to get students to investigate and attempt to solve how we can ‘count’ the number of dolphins that reside in Port Phillip Bay. A real-life marine STEM problem that wildlife managers face when trying to determine how best to conserve our wildlife.
Science Talk
Science Talk is a video series featuring scientists from around the world and their fascinating research on our blue backyard. Topics include nightmarish deep-sea discoveries, coral larvae ecology, reef restoration, and whether magnets can repel sharks from fishing nets—plus much more.