Learning Summary
This collection of resources is for those who have booked an excursion with our Hillarys facility to complete a reef transect activity, or for those who would like to conduct a reef transect themselves.
The resources provided have been developed for conducting a study on a limestone reef platform, however could be adapted to use in any shallow intertidal zone.
Booking your excursion:
- Hillarys school excursion: Reef transect
- Book an excursion
- Teacher Resource Sheet: Excursion management plan – Hillarys
Pre-excursion:
- Teacher Guide: Reef transect
- Teacher Resource Sheet: Preparing for your reef transect
- Fact Sheet: Intertidal rocky shores
- Presentation: The intertidal zone – a reef platform
- Video: The fascinating history behind Mettams Pool
- Department of Transport: Tide predictions
Conducting a reef transect
(Note: if you are attending this excursion with our Hillarys facility, all resources required, excluding pre- and post- excursion resources will be provided).
- Hillarys school excursion: Reef transect
- Student Worksheet: Features along the reef platform
- Student Worksheet: Species composition (this worksheet is suitable for any location and intertidal habitat)
- Student Worksheet: Reef transect – species record sheet (this worksheet is specific to the West coast bioregion of Western Australia)
Post-excursion:
- Student worksheet: Comparing quadrats
- Teacher resource sheet: Comparing quadrats
