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Learn about the Great Barrier Reef
Reef Education Resources
Our education resources cover a range of topics to teach and learn about the Great Barrier Reef including climate change, sea country connection, sustainability, wetlands, threats to the Reef, biodiversity. Below you can find resources, including our Reef Beat poster series, science unit plans, student activity sheets, videos and much more!
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Traditional Owners' Reef Story

A story about the Traditional Custodians of the Great Barrier Reef, created by the Reef 2050 Traditional Owner working group.

Subjects: Climate Change, Ecosystems and Habitats, First Nations Peoples, Responsible Reef Practices

Careers on the Reef Flyer

Experience the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef with a Reef Education Virtual Learning Experience featuring "Careers on the Reef". The Reef Education team can deliver a range of virtual learning experiences, which all link to the Australian Curriculum, using Zoom meeting room or webinar platforms.

Subjects: Reef Guardians, Human uses on the Reef

Management of the Reef Flyer

Experience the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef with a Reef Education Virtual Learning Experience featuring "Management of the Great Barrier Reef". The Reef Education team can deliver a range of virtual learning experiences, which all link to the Australian Curriculum, using Zoom meeting room or webinar platforms.

Subjects: Responsible Reef Practices

Growing up on the Reef Flyer

Experience the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef with a Reef Education Virtual Learning Experience featuring "Life cycles and Growing up on the Reef". The Reef Education team can deliver a range of virtual learning experiences, which all link to the Australian Curriculum, using Zoom meeting room or webinar platforms.

Subjects: Ecosystems and Habitats, Endangered Species

Creatures and their Features Flyer

Experience the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef with a Reef Education Virtual Learning Experience featuring "Creatures and their Features". The Reef Education team can deliver a range of virtual learning experiences, which all link to the Australian Curriculum, using Zoom meeting room or webinar platforms.

Subjects: Ecosystems and Habitats, Endangered Species

Living things on the Reef VLE program flyer

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GBRMPA Teaching Units - Endangered species - marine turtles: Year 4 Australian Science curriculum focus

In this unit, students will investigate marine turtles and their life cycles. They will explore the relationship between the survival needs of marine turtles and the habitats they live in, including interactions with other living things. By considering changes to the habitats, such as coastal development and climate change, students will predict the effect of these changes on marine turtles, including the impact on the survival of the species. Students will recognise how science knowledge helps people understand the effect of their actions.

Subjects: Endangered Species

GBRMPA Teaching Units - Exploring the Reef: Year 3 Australian Science curriculum focus

In this unit, students will investigate living and non-living things (including things on the Great Barrier Reef). They will observe and group things as living or non-living based on observable features. They will explore the characteristics of living things. Students will identify natural and human threats to living things on the Reef and recognise how science can help people understand threats to the Reef such as oil spills and the effect of human actions.

Subjects: Ecosystems and Habitats, Endangered Species

GBRMPA Teaching Units - Habitat investigations: Year 1 Australian Science curriculum focus

In this unit, students will explore one or more habitats within their local environment. They will identify external features of different plants and animals and how their needs are met in the habitats they live in. Students will identify and describe changes to local habitats as a result of human activity and suggest how science helps people care for their local habitats.

Subjects: Ecosystems and Habitats, Endangered Species

2016 Reef Beat Education Series: Threats to the Reef

A series of resources that include videos and an activity book that link to threats to the Great Barrier Reef.

Subjects: Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Marine Debris, Reef Beat Series, Reef Guardians, Responsible Reef Practices, Human uses on the Reef, Water Quality

2013 Reef Beat Education Series: The amazing Great Barrier Reef, let's keep it great

A series of resources that include a poster and an activity book that link to the amazing Great Barrier Reef and its importance as a national and global icon.

Subjects: Reef Beat Series, Reef Guardians

2012 Reef Beat Education Series: The inshore Great Barrier Reef, bursting with biodiversity

A series of resources that include a set of posters and an activity book that link to inshore biodiversity on the Great Barrier Reef.

Subjects: Ecosystems and Habitats, Endangered Species, Reef Beat Series, Reef Guardians, Responsible Reef Practices, Water Quality
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Yirrganydji Traditional use of Marine Resources Agreement

Video explaining the Yirrganydji Traditional use of Marine Resources Agreement and the projects they are undertaking.

Subjects: First Nations Peoples

Lama Lama Traditional Use of Marine Resources Agreement

A video about the Lama Lama Traditional Use of Marine Resources Agreement (TUMRA) that covers Sea Country which extends from Princess Charlotte Bay to the Normanby River, a rugged and breathtakingly beautiful part of the Great Barrier Reef.

Subjects: First Nations Peoples

Here's how you can protect the Great Barrier Reef

A video explaining how your actions can help protect the Great Barrier Reef.

Subjects: Climate Change, Responsible Reef Practices

Monitoring for management: Reef 2050 plan?

The Reef 2050 Integrated Monitoring and Reporting Program is a coordinated and integrated monitoring, modelling and reporting program for the Great Barrier Reef and its adjacent catchment that will help track the progress towards targets and objectives of the Reef 2050 Plan, under the plan’s seven themes. This will be a key input to assessing the effectiveness of the plan.

Subjects: Climate Change, Endangered Species, Extreme Weather, Marine Debris, Responsible Reef Practices, Water Quality

What is the Reef 2050 Plan?

A video explaining the Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan (Reef 2050 Plan). The Reef 2050 Plan was developed by the Australian and Queensland governments, together with its partners, including Traditional Owners, industry, scientists and communities, as an overarching strategy for managing the Great Barrier Reef.

Subjects: Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Marine Debris, Responsible Reef Practices, Water Quality

Classification of Reef Creatures Playlist

A series of videos explaining classification and describing various marine phyla.

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Indigenous Ranger compliance training

Video showing the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) delivered the nationally recognised Certificate IV in Government (Statutory Compliance) to 28 Indigenous rangers at the Yuku Baja Muliku Ranger Base south of Cooktown.

Subjects: First Nations Peoples

Indigenous Ranger Training on the Reef

A video explaining Indigenous Reef Ranger training. This ranger training aims to cross-pollinate traditional knowledge with Western science to protect Indigenous heritage values and ultimately, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

Subjects: First Nations Peoples

Indigenous Rangers on the Reef

This video explains the Indigenous rangers program. It is a nationally-accredited training course by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. It provides rangers with the skills to ensure Marine Park users comply with its rules and traditional lore.

Subjects: First Nations Peoples

Meet the Yuku Baja Muliku Junior Rangers

A video explaining the Yuku Baja Muliku Traditional Use of Marine Resources Agreement and their Junior Rangers from Far North Queensland.

Subjects: First Nations Peoples

A new kind of sea star: how we're helping rehabilitate Green Island in the Great Barrier Reef

A video explaining reef stars. Using hexagonal-shaped, metal frames called MARRS Reef Stars and thousands of live coral fragments, Neil and the team, in partnership with Queensland National Parks, are working to regenerate the Reef.

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Our field management team: on the frontline

A video showcasing the work of our field management team in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The field management program is a joint initiative of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.

Subjects: Responsible Reef Practices