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Biodiversity in Action Education Resources

  • Biodiversity in Action Education Resources

    Bring Australia's extraordinary biodiversity into your classroom and help your students move from understanding it to protecting it. Created in partnership with the Biodiversity Council, these resources for Foundation - Year 10 will explore why biodiversity matters for healthy ecosystems, how human actions help or harm it, and practical ways to help local habitats thrive.

    Through practical, evidence-based, Country-centred learning, your class will turn knowledge into action and see how even small steps can add up to meaningful change for their environment.

Take action for Australia's biodiversity

Through Science, Geography, English and HPE lessons, students explore nature-based solutions to light pollution and urban heat, design wildlife-friendly spaces, consider responsible pet ownership to protect wildlife, connect nature to wellbeing, and explore First Nations knowledge and scientific practices.

These Australian Curriculum–aligned resources include ready-to-use worksheets, planners, visual explainers, case studies, videos, and more—designed for low-prep, high-impact teaching.

Real-world learning

These biodiversity classroom resources help students:
🌿 Diagnose local environmental issues and design simple, practical fixes
🌿 Audit and improve school habitats with wildlife-friendly adjustments
🌿 Link pet ownership to wildlife protection using local council rules and a class pledge
🌿 Connect nature and wellbeing by creating a simple “Take 10 Outside” routine
🌿 Use data and digital tools to draft a conservation action plan
🌿 Apply First Nations perspectives respectfully (Country, culturally significant species, seasonal knowledge).

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                              With thanks to our partner

                              The Biodiversity Council is an independent expert group founded by 11 Australian universities to promote evidence-based solutions to Australia’s biodiversity crisis. Its mission is to be a trusted expert voice, communicating accurate information on Australia’s most pressing biodiversity issues to communities, businesses, and governments, and motivating effective, evidence-based action so biodiversity and Country prosper.

                              The Council’s Biodiversity Councillors are leading experts in science, First Nations knowledge, law, policy, economics, behaviour change and communications.

                              And special thanks to