Duration: 1 hour
Year Group: K–12
Cost: $5 per student

This inter­ac­tive ses­sion gives stu­dents an overview of the role that the Depart­ment of Fish­eries plays in man­ag­ing our aquatic nat­ural resources. Stu­dents will try their hand at ‘dry fish­ing’ with their own han­d­line to observe the effects of fish­ing pres­sure on our fish stocks, and how man­age­ment and sci­ence plays an impor­tant role in con­serv­ing them.

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Duration: 1 hour
Year Group: K–12
Cost: $5 per student

Take a jour­ney down the West­ern Aus­tralian coast­line with our edu­ca­tion staff. Explore the Leeuwin Cur­rent and its effect on West­ern Australia’s marine and fresh­wa­ter ecol­ogy and biol­ogy. Get ‘hands on’ with some West­ern Aus­tralian marine life in our rock pool and travel along the Sci­en­tific Trail.

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Duration: 1 hour
Year Group: 10–12
Cost: $5.00 per student

Stu­dents will learn about the ever chang­ing coastal envi­ron­ment, coastal veg­e­ta­tion and the threats that are fac­ing our frag­ile coast­line – both nat­ural and human-induced. They will gen­er­ate a pro­file of a nearby beach and inves­ti­gate the causes of changes to the beach over time.

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Duration:
Year Group: 4–7
Cost: $5.00 per student

Learn about coastal ero­sion and the impact it has on infra­struc­ture and the coastal envi­ron­ment. Test dif­fer­ent mate­ri­als at the beach to find out which mate­r­ial pro­tects a sand­cas­tle the best and lim­its the effects of coastal erosion.

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Duration: 1 hour
Year Group: K–7
Cost: $5 per student

Build sand­cas­tles with a dif­fer­ence – stu­dents make some pop­u­lar marine crea­tures, then dis­cuss the creature’s role in the marine envi­ron­ment and the impor­tance of nutri­ent cycling along our coast.

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Duration: 1 hour
Year Group: K–12
Cost: $5 per student

Explore a nearby beach and dis­cover the won­ders of what our oceans leave washed up in their wake. Iden­tify and clas­sify dif­fer­ent organ­isms, while also inves­ti­gat­ing the human impacts on our oceans and beaches.

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Duration: 1 hour
Year Group: 10–12
Cost: $5.00 per student

Stu­dents will learn about the impor­tance of aquatic biose­cu­rity and the impacts intro­duced species have on the bio­di­ver­sity of West­ern Australia’s aquatic envi­ron­ment. They will view footage of Fish­eries research staff car­ry­ing out field work and then carry out their own biose­cu­rity sur­vey of local waters using cur­rent sci­en­tific methods.

(Note: this activ­ity involves both field and lab­o­ra­tory work)

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Duration: 1 hour
Year Group: 8–12
Cost: $5 per student

New tech­nolo­gies and sci­en­tific meth­ods enhance our abil­ity to find and doc­u­ment our marine life. This ses­sion pro­vides stu­dents with the oppor­tu­nity to try a range of sam­pling tech­niques used by fish­eries and marine sci­en­tists, and includes sam­pling of plank­ton, abalone, rock lob­ster and finfish.

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Duration: 1 hour
Year Group: 11–12
Cost: $5 per student

Stu­dents will learn about the biol­ogy of the west­ern rock lob­ster (includ­ing get­ting up close and per­sonal with one!) and the envi­ron­men­tal fac­tors that influ­ence the fish­ery. They will view footage of Fish­eries research staff car­ry­ing out field work, then sim­u­late this them­selves, shak­ing out lob­ster pueru­lus from col­lec­tor sheets and using this data to esti­mate the future lob­ster catch.

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Duration: 1 hour
Year Group: 10–12
Cost: $5 per student

Using pre­pared mate­r­ial, stu­dents will work out the age of fish, record data and then present the infor­ma­tion graph­i­cally. This activ­ity has stu­dents car­ry­ing out micro­scope work, val­i­dat­ing data and then pre­sent­ing data as a fish­eries sci­en­tist would.

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Duration: 1 hour
Year Group: 6–12
Cost: $8 per student

Have you ever won­dered what baby fish eat? Sea mon­keys (Artemia) are a high qual­ity, easy to breed fish food. Learn how to breed these groovy crit­ters and how they are used in the aqua­cul­ture indus­try. Stu­dents will set up their own sea mon­key hatch­ery to take home.

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Duration: 1 hour
Year Group: K–7
Cost: $5 per student

Stu­dents search through a range of marine organ­isms that are com­monly found on our local beaches. They then learn how to iden­tify and clas­sify these plant and ani­mal organ­isms, while dis­cov­er­ing how they are related to each other.

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Duration: 1 hour
Year Group: 6–12
Cost: $8 per student

Learn why fish­eries sci­en­tists dis­sect fish and what infor­ma­tion can be found from exam­in­ing the exter­nal and inter­nal struc­ture of a fish. Stu­dents then carry out their own fish dis­sec­tion, where they will get to extract the ear bones, or otoliths, from their fish.

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Duration: 1 hour
Year Group: 6–12
Cost: $5 per student

Dis­cover the world of plank­ton! Learn how fish­eries sci­en­tists use plank­ton to esti­mate fish pop­u­la­tions and deter­mine the health of fish­eries. Stu­dents will con­duct their own plank­ton tow, learn to iden­tify com­mon plank­ton and com­plete the plank­ton chal­lenge!
(Note: this activ­ity involves both field and lab­o­ra­tory work)

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