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		<title>School&#8217;s in for Marine Life Lovers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2019 23:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Education Innovator Sir Ken Robinson recently noted: “A great teacher obviously knows their material, but the real skill is engaging them in the material, getting them excited and curious, and firing up their imaginations.” And that’s where we come in! Ocean Life Education delivers fun marine education incursions, where students are given the opportunity to [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1193" src="https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/clayfield-college-Y4-students-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/clayfield-college-Y4-students-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/clayfield-college-Y4-students-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/clayfield-college-Y4-students-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/clayfield-college-Y4-students-624x416.jpg 624w, https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/clayfield-college-Y4-students-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/clayfield-college-Y4-students-2048x1365.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Education Innovator Sir Ken Robinson recently noted: “A great teacher obviously knows their material, but the real skill is engaging them in the material, getting them excited and curious, and firing up their imaginations.”</strong></p>
<p><strong> And that’s where we come in!</strong></p>
<p>Ocean Life Education delivers fun marine education incursions, where students are given the opportunity to interact with a variety of live marine creatures.</p>
<p>Our programs are all closely aligned with the <strong>Australian National Curriculum</strong>, delivering lessons across a broad range of topics including animal habitats, adaptations and classification.</p>
<p>Through carefully controlled contact, children learn why animals’ look and feel the way they do, how their bodies function, what their individual roles are in their environment and therefore why we need to look after them.</p>
<p><strong>Responding to interactive learning</strong></p>
<p>We understand all children are different and absorb information in different ways.</p>
<p>As passionate educators ourselves, the staff at Ocean Life Education value the importance of connecting students with their subject and showing them that science is a living, breathing part of their world.</p>
<p>Children respond extremely well to having real animals at their fingertips &#8211; this one-on-one experience provides a greater depth of understanding which leads to the desire to protect them.</p>
<p><strong>Choose a program that suits current unit themes</strong></p>
<p>What better way to understand Life Cycles, than to see one of our baby sharks at close quarters and observe the eggs they hatched from and note the often significant differences from their adult version?</p>
<p>We will tailor our programs to your classrooms’ current unit theme for all levels of school learning.</p>
<p><strong>Leaders in environmental education</strong></p>
<p>Ocean Life Education is proud to be involved in educating tomorrow’s leaders in environmental awareness and protection.</p>
<p>Our hope is to imprint in every Australian a sense of ownership and protectiveness of our marine environment, and together we will lead the world in the changes necessary for a healthy planet.</p>
<p><strong>What to expect:</strong></p>
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<li>Linked to the Australian National Curriculum</li>
<li>Qualified and experienced Marine Educators</li>
<li>Live Marine Animal Interaction <em><strong>Blue linckia seastars, thorny seastars, black sea cucumber, tropical sea cucumber, sea urchins, fresh water turtle and baby bamboo shark </strong></em></li>
<li>Shark jaws, shells and fascinating artefacts in activity area</li>
<li>FREE colourful bookmark to take home!</li>
<li>FREE risk assessment</li>
<li>FREE coming to visit poster</li>
<li>FREE thorough supporting information, videos and blogs</li>
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<p><strong>What teachers think:</strong></p>
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<p>&#8220;ONE OF THE BEST INCURSIONS I HAVE EVER SEEN – KEEN, INTERESTING PRESENTERS WHO ARE TRULY PASSIONATE ABOUT THEIR SUBJECT!&#8221; Jasmine Molineux, <strong>Patricks Road State School, (Year 2) 2018</strong></p>
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<p>For more information, visit our <a href="https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/programs/primary-schools/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School Programs page</a> or <a href="https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Contact Us</a> to request a program outline for your year level.</p>
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		<title>Why our approach to curriculum connection has never been so important</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2015 07:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>By Richard Coward Understanding our surrounding environment, our impact upon it and why we need to protect it has never been more important. Fortunately, the Australian Curriculum is moving toward an improved coverage of key concepts and understanding within biological and Earth sciences across all primary year levels. Ocean Life Education offers a fantastic opportunity [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/20150108_Curriculum-connection_Richard.png"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-322 aligncenter" src="https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/20150108_Curriculum-connection_Richard.png" alt="Why our approach to curriculum connection has never been so important" width="600" height="450" srcset="https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/20150108_Curriculum-connection_Richard.png 1024w, https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/20150108_Curriculum-connection_Richard-300x225.png 300w, https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/20150108_Curriculum-connection_Richard-768x576.png 768w, https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/20150108_Curriculum-connection_Richard-624x468.png 624w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a></p>
<p>By Richard Coward</p>
<p>Understanding our surrounding environment, our impact upon it and why we need to protect it has never been more important.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the Australian Curriculum is moving toward an improved coverage of key concepts and understanding within biological and Earth sciences across all primary year levels.</p>
<p>Ocean Life Education offers a fantastic opportunity for teachers to use our programs as a learning resource that is engaging, providing meaningful interactive learning whilst linking to related curriculum modules.</p>
<p>Our approach, is to bring key concepts together giving students a better understanding of the bigger picture.</p>
<p>We help students understand animals and their given habitat, how they differ from other animals, why they look and feel the way they do, what their importance is to the environment they live in, what problems humans create for them and why we need to look after them and their habitats.</p>
<p>For example, sea stars have a tough flat body to protect them from their harsh habitat (the shallow foreshore). They belong to a group of animals called ‘Echinoderms’ as they have tube feet and pump water around their body not blood to keep them alive. The sea stars eat algae and dead animals off the ocean floor, keeping it clean and healthy. If we pollute the water, sea stars will struggle to survive in their habitat. The problem lies in that if our human impacts result in dying sea stars, we lose an important cleaner of the ocean floor, resulting in a complexity of negative effects.</p>
<p>We take the approach of helping students to understand these cause and effect links to help keep our environment clean &#8211; to ensure the animals’ survival, and ours.</p>
<p>We deliver school programs that provide alignment with the Australian Curriculum Science strands: Science Understanding for Biological Science and Earth &amp; Space Sciences, as well as Science as a Human Endeavour.</p>
<p>Using live marine animals, we provide a unique depth of engagement and understanding.</p>
<p>Our marine science incursions are a truly rewarding and refreshing way for students to learn key concepts set out by the national curriculum.</p>
<p>Visit our <a title="Schools" href="https://www.oceanlifeeducation.com.au/programs/schools/">school programs</a> page for a range of available programs.</p>
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