Teacher Resources

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.

Explore how environmental conditions affect survival, adaptions, and ecosystem relationships.

This webpage explains biodiversity as the variety of life at genetic, species and ecosystem levels, highlighting its importance, the threats it faces, and actions people can take to help protect it.

This program explores biodiversity and the essential ecosystem services that nature provides to people and the environment. Students investigate the economic value of healthy ecosystems and consider how conservation and sustainable management can protect these benefits for the future.

This program introduces students to the biology, ecology and life cycles of marine turtles, including their adaptations, habitats and migration. Students explore the threats facing turtles and the conservation strategies used to protect these iconic marine species.

Join Porci and Annika in this exciting episode of Porci’s Ocean Patrol as they investigate algal blooms. This resource also features 32 information and inspiration cards that support playful thinking and hands-on learning.

Blue Minds offers ocean-based workshops that combine marine science, wellbeing and hands-on experiences to help students build a deeper connection with the ocean. Programs encourage curiosity, mindfulness and positive action while exploring the relationship between people and the marine environment.

This unit cover topics such as plastic waste, by-catch and overfishing, and litter. Students use real-world data and statistical analysis to understand the issues and plan and implement projects to create change. The film serves as a call to action to conserve our oceans and protect marine life.

Science.  Includes activities such as creating a campaign, investigating the impact of human activities on coral reefs, and exploring solutions to address coral reef damage using a design thinking model.

This unit is inspired by clips from Blue the film that cover various topics such as creating marine parks, sustainable fishing, plastic pollution, and the importance of the ocean as a resource for life on our planet.