Seagrass-Watch Education

Everyone needs an understanding of science to make sense of their world, to make decisions about health and well-being and to engage with an increasingly scientific and technological world. Quality science education provides the foundation for a scientifically literate society. Children are naturally curious and we need to support and nurture their sense of wonder and develop their passion for discovering how the world works.

To this aim, Seagrass-Watch HQ is preparing educational aids to contribute to seagrass and marine conservation education in primary and secondary schools

Below are activity books and an educator’s handbook. Teachers are encouraged to use these documents as part of lessons or extra-curricula activities. All these documents are currently in draft form. You are welcome to download these documents and trial them. We also value your feedback so that we can develop tools which are useful and valuable to the learning experience.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We value your feedback. Please help us to develop helpful and educational aids to teach the importance of these valuable marine plants.

 

 

Contibuting to curricula

In the future, Seagrass-Watch HQ plans to expand it’s educational information, so that it may be incorporated into school curricula, designed to assist students to become lifelong learners. A lifelong learner is:

• a knowledgeable person with deep understanding (understand and use conceptual ideas of science in their everyday lives);

• a complex thinker (identify and solve problems);

• a creative person (generate new ways of viewing or resolving problems to envision possible, probable and preferred futures);

• an active investigator (draw conclusions, answer questions or form generalisations based on the evidence collected);

• an effective communicator (compose and comprehend written, spoken and visual texts that convey information about science);

• a participant in an interdependent world (perform confidently as self-directed individuals to investigate scientific ideas);

• a reflective and self-directed learner (actively participate as informed citizens, exercising stewardship of the environment and acknowledging human responsibility for the impact of the practices of science).

 

 

 

 

 

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Correct citation: McKenzie, LJ., Yoshida, RL., Mellors, JE & Coles, RG. (2006 - 2008). Seagrass-Watch. www.seagrasswatch.org. 228pp. Disclaimer: The views expressed on this site are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Queensland Government. Website designed by McKenzie, LJ., Yoshida, RL.