Coral Reef Awareness

Coral Reefs – Rain Forests of the Sea
EcosystemsTeach your students the importance of protecting our Coral reefs during Coral Reef Awareness month. Get the facts about the undersea habitat at the Reef Relief site. Have your students use that information to make a presentation explaining why protecting our coral reefs is important.

Corals and Coral Reefs
Using this site, students can learn about corals, coral reefs, reefs as an ecosystem, and how to conserve our reefs.

Coral Reef Watch Satellite Monitoring
NOAA's has a Coral Reef Watch Program that provides satellite data on current reef environmental conditions. Using this site students can identify areas at risk, if a coral is severely bleached, whether or not disease and partial mortality is likely to happen, and what happens if the entire colony is infected.

25 Things You Can Do to Save Coral Reefs
Have students review the 25 options and ask them what they can do to help.

Reef Ecosystem
The coral reef ecosystem is a diverse collection of species, have students research coral reef animals and how they interact with each other.

The Changing Coral Reef Community Game
Students will learn about the living requirements and ecology of the three important sessile organisms that inhabit the coral reef while playing this game.