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Research and Development - OCEANOGRAPHER
Why is the Ocean Salty? Primary Middle Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
1. You are to read the following article from The Conversation 11 September 2017 about why the ocean or sea is salty: 2. Write down all the interesting facts you have discovered. Share with a partner. Did your partner have other facts that you now want to add to your list? Combine your lists so you have at least 10 main facts. 3. Using Piktochart, create an Infographic with the title: Why is the Ocean Salty? Make this as interesting as possible. Print and hang up your infograph in your classroom or your bedroom at home!
Social
Media Action: Plastic and how it affects our oceans
Primary Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority Cooperative Learning Activity
1. The future of oceanography will require that our nation's brightest minds apply themselves to issues of global concern, the environment, climate change, biodiversity, and sustainable resources. As a group of 4 - 5 students, you are going to create a Public Service Announcement [PSA] using Social Media on the topic "Plastic and how it affects our oceans" leading and showing our nation the right path to make a difference in this problem. Go to the Public Service Announcement page to see how to make a PSA.
Do you need further information? Check out the following:
4. Create either a
about "Plastic and how it affects our oceans".
Make sure that you include the ethics of this situation in your PSA!
Start by giving a presentation at school about this issue and get the other students to "like" your page or video. Let your parents and carers know about your campaign and get them to register their "likes". Next tell your broader family about what you want them to do - spread the word!
How "successful" in terms of "likes" have you been after 2 weeks? A month? A term? A semester?
Concern for the Great Barrier Reef : 6 Thinking Hats (created by Anabel Mifsud, ACU Education Student)
Primary Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority Cooperative Learning Activity
1. The Great Barrier Reef is recognised as one of the seven natural wonders of the world, and is the world's largest coral reef system. Multiple factors are contributing to the reefs decline, from tourism to water pollution to climate change, with research showing that half of the reef has vanished in the past 27 years. (Source: LiveScience)
Look at the following resources to learn more about the Great Barrier Reef.
2. Edward de Bono was a Maltese physician, psychologist, and inventor. He designed the Six Thinking Hats - a method of looking at a problem from different perspectives in order to achieve a more balanced and fair argument or debate.
Use the Six Thinking Hats process to create a
fair and balanced conversation on the Great Barrier Reef. Below are some
suggested questions you could use for each of the six hats.
3. In groups of 6, select one hat to be your perspective or role. Pull the different colours out of a hat to allocate your role.
. Share with your partner. Did they come up with different angles to you?
Tracking Sharks! (created by Anabel Mifsud, ACU Education Student) Primary Middle Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking
1. Tracking the movements of sharks has become a valuable and entertaining tool for oceanographers, as it allows for them to monitor the migratory patterns, movement patterns, social connections, havitat use, and even life histories of species! These insights allow us to conserve and prevent extinction as well as understand how organisms interract with their ecosystem.
You can read about the different methods of tagging marine animals here.
The website Ocearch is one such website which allows us to track the movement of tagged sharks. Spend a few minutes familiarising yourself with their website
2. Using the 'Track in Real Time' function on the
left hand side of the site, choose a shark you would like to track. Over
the next month, log on daily to track the movement and activities of
this shark. Print off a profile for your chosen shark, and each day
include any new information. Be sure to date the information!
3. Create a Shark classroom with each of the information you have discovered along with a picture of each shark.
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