Prepare for a tutoring lesson.

Try this with Marine Science

1. Pick one topic and bring a question, an attempted answer or a short section of your notes.
2. Write a goal you can check at the end, such as explaining a method or improving a response.
3. Choose one independent follow-up task to try after working through the example.

Pick a starting point

• Where reefs grow: global and Australian distribution, latitudinal and cross-shelf patterns, and the abiotic limits on corals
• How the Great Barrier Reef formed: geological history, sea-level change since 20 000 BP, reef types and reef zonation
• Coral classification and anatomy: soft and hard corals, hermatypic and ahermatypic corals, genus keys and building the limestone skeleton
• Coral feeding, symbiosis and life cycles: nematocysts, zooxanthellae, reproduction, larval recruitment and reef accretion
• Habitat complexity and connectivity: corals as ecosystem engineers, rugosity, mangroves, seagrass, estuaries and herbivorous fish
• Reading reef health data: diversity indices, Whittaker plots, coral cover trends, water quality, tipping points and hysteresis

Plan a sample lesson

Choose one inventory topic and a goal. This plan stays in your browser until you download it; it is not sent to a tutor.