Teaching Resources: Coasts & Estuaries
Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Resources
The Best of Catchment Connections (5Mb pdf)
Includes an introduction to estuaries in the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Region, excursion notes, student activities and links to the SACSA Framework. See pages 102-118 and 141-147.
Central Adelaide Resources
Catchment to Coast Teacher Resource Pack (1Mb pdf)
Background information and learning ideas to help you explore coastal environments and human impacts.
Fact Sheets
Gulf
Seagrass
Mangroves
Estuaries
Sandy
Sand dunes
Rocky intertidal
Temperate reefs
Open ocean
or download all of the fact sheets in one (1.6mb PDF)
Where Fresh Meets Salt Teacher Resource Pack (600Kb pdf)
Background information, learning ideas and session summaries to help you explore estuarine environments in the Barker Inlet and Port River system. Coastal Environments
Coastal Environments Curriculum Overview (730Kb pdf)
Provides links to SACSA Framework, 'how-to' run your own coastal session and other learning opportunities.
Mangrove Activity Sheets:
Activity sheets for students to complete, simply answer the questions and colour in the mangroves.
Mangrove Excursion Worksheets (80Kb pdf)
Junior:
High Tide Questions (435Kb doc)
High Tide Answers (155Kb doc)
Low Tide Questions (165Kb doc)
Low Tide Answers (20Kb pdf)
Senior:
High Tide Questions (150Kb doc)
Low Tide Questions (145Kb doc)
Other Activities:
Adelaide’s Coastline in a Jar (80Kb pdf)
Danny the Drip – The Port River Story (60Kb pdf)