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School Excursions: Metropolitan region education program

Explore our Metropolitan region education program for Hillarys based excursions.

Resource type: School ExcursionLast updated: 19.11.2024

Hillarys School Excursion: Science of Sampling

How many different types of plants, algae and animals are below the water’s surface? How many different species of fish are out there to look at when you go diving, or to catch when you go fishing? How does a fisheries scientist determine how many fish are in the sea?

Resource type: School ExcursionLast updated: 24.05.2023

Poster: Bringing the Beach to You – West Coast (Secondary)

Explore the classification of beach flotsam and jetsam of the West Coast bioregion.

Resource type: PosterLast updated: 26.04.2023

Hillarys School Excursion: Aquaculture 101

In this activity, students learn about the benefits and limitations of aquaculture as a farming technique. Students will also learn about Western Australia’s key aquaculture species, the types of aquaculture systems used across the state, and the practiced used to manage the organisms in these systems.

Resource type: School ExcursionLast updated: 26.04.2023

Hillarys School Excursion: Reef Transect

Come and discover what is found on Perth’s limestone reef and conduct an ecosystem survey using transects and quadrats.

Resource type: School ExcursionLast updated: 14.12.2022

Hillarys School Excursion: Rock Lobster: Shake, Settle & Roll

In this activity, students will learn about the biology of the iconic Western rock lobster, how Western rock lobster are managed by fishery scientists and DPIRD, and how currents and other environmental factors influence this valuable fishery.

Resource type: School ExcursionLast updated: 14.12.2022

Hillarys School Excursion: Fish Dissection

In this fish dissection activity, students learn why dissection is an important tool in fisheries science and what information scientists gain from dissecting fish. Students will conduct a fish dissection to examine and identify the internal anatomy of a bony fish, as well as learn how these features enable the fish to survive.

Resource type: School ExcursionLast updated: 14.12.2022

Hillarys School Excursion: Fish of Ages

In this activity, students will learn the role ageing fish plays in the sustainable management of fish populations. Students will learn how and why fisheries scientists age fish, then try their hand at ageing prepared microscope slides of sectioned fish otoliths.

Resource type: School ExcursionLast updated: 14.12.2022

Hillarys School Excursion: Fisheries Management

This interactive activity gives students an overview of some of the fisheries management tools the Department applies to recreational fishing activity to sustainably manage our aquatic resources.

Resource type: School ExcursionLast updated: 14.12.2022

Hillarys School Excursion: Aquatic Natural Resource Management

This introductory session asks students to reflect on their relationship with the marine environment and describes the role the Department plays in managing Western Australia’s aquatic resources and environments.

Resource type: School ExcursionLast updated: 14.12.2022

Poster: Marine Classification (Senior)

Classification is the organising or sorting of organisms into groups according to their characteristics. This poster shows the classification of common marine animals, plants and algae found across Western Australia.

Resource type: PosterLast updated: 07.12.2022

Poster: Fish Ageing

This poster shows how fisheries scientists at the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) use scales and, more accurately, otoliths, to age fish. Determining the ages of fish tells scientists the health of the overall population. From this information, informed fisheries management practices can be applied to ensure fish for the future.

Resource type: PosterLast updated: 07.12.2022

Fact Sheet: Fish ageing

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) has the largest collection of fish ages in Australia. Our fisheries scientists have processed and aged 381,000 fish (December 2022), ranging from small estuarine to large marine species. This information is held in a database at the Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, which dates back to 1990 (and even earlier for some species!).

Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 07.12.2022

Fact Sheet: Whale Shark

Despite their huge size, whale sharks are docile, filter feeders that cruise the world's oceans looking for plankton.

Resource type: Fact SheetLast updated: 09.06.2022

Student Worksheet: Extraction to analysis

This worksheet is associated with the Lesson: Ageing fish

Resource type: Student WorksheetLast updated: 26.05.2022

Teacher Resource Sheet: Comparing quadrats

This is a post excursion resource associated with the Excursion: Reef transect.

Resource type: Teacher Resource SheetLast updated: 24.02.2022

Reef Transect

Resource type: UnitLast updated: 24.02.2022

Teacher Guide: Reef Transect

Come and discover what is found on Perth's limestone reef and conduct an ecosystem survey using transects and quadrats.

Resource type: Teacher GuideLast updated: 24.02.2022

Student Worksheet: Reef transect – species record sheet

This student worksheet is associated with Hillarys school excursion: Reef transect and Teacher Guide: Reef transect

Resource type: Student WorksheetLast updated: 03.02.2022

Presentation: Reading sectioned Black Bream otoliths

This presentation is associated with the Lesson: Counting rings

Resource type: PresentationLast updated: 15.09.2021

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