Following on from the interpretive “Story of a River” lesson our Year 3/4 students continued their study of Civics and Citizenship by welcoming into the classroom, marine scientist, Hannah Moloney. Hannah, a previous guest during our iso Family Science Week in 2020, described her early love of local beaches and environs and elaborated on her role with the Manta Trust in the Maldives. The Maldives is the most populous place in the world for Mantas and Hannah enlightened the class about the two species of Mantas, the Reef and the Oceania, their size, structure, diet, feeding methods, cleaning, colouring, and the distinct marking on their bellies that were like fingerprints. Hannah explained that they were under threat from pollution, rubbish, fishing, ghost nets which are free swimming discarded or lost fishing nets, their gill plates were harvested for Chinese medicine and their ecosystem will be impacted by climate change. The Manta Trust works to educate people about cleaning up rubbish, protecting waterways, sustainable fishing, research and responsible tourism. Students then played a game called Hungry Mantas where they had to avoid plastic or ghost nets and learnt, through a game of Chinese Whispers, that “Soon there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean”. What a wonderful way to help make our students better global citizens. Comments are closed.
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