Your Mission:
Make a pact with a friend
not to eat Swordfish or Shark.
We have now fished up to
90% of world's large fish and an ever increasing number of species are faced
with extinction.
Swordfish and some species of shark are 'the tigers of the ocean' - beautiful
predators in extreme peril. However unlike tigers their plight is largely
unknown and despite their desperately low numbers they still find themselves
served up as steaks for the BBQ.
You can do your bit by choosing to buy more sustainably caught seafood such as
barramundi to lower the demand for threatened and endangered species. For a
guide to sustainable seafood (click
to download guide)
Education
The Marine Discovery Centre has just
celebrated 10 year of running primary school excursion programs, teaching over
20,000 children about the marine environment since 2002.
"After 30 years of teaching I have found at long last the best
excursion ever" – Ms
Louise Gibson, Clovelly Public School YK 2011
Click here
to download the available low tide dates for 2012, choose the best for your
school and e-mail excursions@marinediscovery.org.au
to reserve your spot.
Click here to download a sample timetable of activities (program runs 10am to 2pm +/- 30mins depending on travel flexibility – max of 4 classes or 128 stds each day).
Each class booking
receives a free DVD on the marine life of Sydney, for pre-excursion activities
Hands-on excursions
really bring units of work to life for students.
Our Marine Biologist Guides will ensure your class not
only achieves the syllabus outcomes but also has a fun day full of learning!
The guided Rockpool Discovery Tours are the highlight - a hands-on
investigation of the amazing marine life that lives on the rockplatforms around
Sydney. Discover the structure, function and amazing adaptations of these local
marine organisms; investigate properties of seawater using Hydrometers;
discover our Aboriginal heritage through rock engravings and then link it all
together by looking at man’s impact on our local environments through fun and
education games on the beach.
This is combined with a visit to
the Underwater Bondi Experience, which is a walk-through simulation of a 2,000
dive tour around Bondi Bay using a combination of real fish (including baby
sharks) in large camouflaged aquaria that are set into the world’s first
re-creation of an actual dive site; together with a virtual reality dive
sequence to transport you out there and an amazing 11 minute filmic tour around
Bondi Bay to complete the journey. The very realistic Stormwater Drain at the
end provides a vivid call to action; perfect for inspiring young minds with
motivating “MDC Missions” – like “Have a Plastic Free Day!”
*Bookings are essential
& strictly limited. Minimum class size 20 students
**Cost (ExGST): $12:00 pp in Term 1 and $11:00pp in Terms 2&3 and $12:50 pp
in Term 4 (Teachers and Adult Helpers
FREE)
These fun-filled excursions are delivered with the generous assistance of our
partners Waverley, Woollahra and Randwick Councils who offer 40% discounts for
their schools (Wav & Wooll) and 25% (Ran).
These comprehensive,
fun-filled excursions ideally complement Units of Work focusing on Outcomes
from the Science & Technology Syllabus Strands, Living Things and Earth and
its Surroundings; in addition to HSIE Syllabus Strands Environments and Change
and Continuity (among others); and PDHPE Safe Living Outcomes; as well as the
Environmental Education Policy for Schools all in a highly engaging and
entertaining day out at The Beach.
Click here to download a sample timetable of activities (program runs 10am to 2pm +/- 30mins depending on travel flexibility – max of 4 classes or 128 stds each day).
Click here
to download the available low tide dates for 2012, choose which is best for
your school and e-mail excursions@marinediscovery.org.au
to reserve your spot.
Or contact us
for further details and bookings