GREAT BARRIER REEF • SUPPLEMENTAL LESSON 14

One Reef.
Two Protection Lenses.

Research the pressure. Compare the priorities. Persuade with evidence.

READCOMPARERECOMMEND
A sunlit living coral reef with many small reef fish
THE REEF IS NOT ONE STORY

Can both statements be true?

CORE3 MIN
TRUE STATEMENT 1

The Reef still contains living coral across all three monitored regions.

TRUE STATEMENT 2

Recent bleaching and other pressures caused substantial coral loss.

Both can be true because…
MISSION

Advise—do not advertise

CORE2 MIN
READBuild a common evidence base
COMPARESee through two protection lenses
RECOMMENDName a defensible priority
Finished product: an 8–10 sentence Reef Protection Brief
READING PACK • 2 COLOURS

Read for evidence and action

CORE8 MIN
EEvidence about condition or threat
AAn action that could protect or strengthen
□A sentence that prevents oversimplification
→ → →
EVIDENCE LEDGER • ORGANISER

A number is useful only when you explain it

CORE4 MIN
This matters because ________________________________________.
CAUSE CHAIN • ORGANISER

Bleached does not automatically mean dead

CORE4 MIN
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Repeated disturbances → less time to recover
TWO PROTECTION LENSES

Different scale. Shared purpose.

CORE5 MIN
LENS A • LOCAL RESILIENCE

Reduce pressures now

water quality • starfish control • sustainable fishing • marine debris • Sea Country management • restoration

SHARED PURPOSEA living Reef with more opportunity to survive and recover
LENS B • CLIMATE ACTION

Address the primary threat

reduce greenhouse gas emissions • limit future warming • reduce marine heatwave pressure

OVERLAP + DIFFERENCE

What does each lens make us notice?

CORE4 MIN

BOTH agree that ________________________________________.

LOCAL prioritises ________________ because ________________.

CLIMATE prioritises ________________ because ________________.

EVIDENCE BOUNDARY • ORGANISER

Supported, inferred—or overclaimed?

CORE4 MIN
1

The whole Great Barrier Reef is dead.

2

Improving water quality can help Reef resilience.

3

Local protection work is pointless without climate action.

4

A complete plan needs work at more than one scale.

LANGUAGE LAB

Make each perspective precise

CORE4 MIN
VAGUE

We should fix local problems.

PRECISE

Governments should urgently reduce polluted runoff entering vulnerable inshore reefs.

Australia should rapidly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that intensify marine heatwaves.
ANNOTATED MODEL

Read the model like an adviser

CORE5 MIN
DEPTH A • OPTIONAL

Change the decision-maker

OPTIONAL DEPTH8 MIN
COASTAL COUNCILrunoff • litter • local habitats • community action
AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTnational emissions • Reef policy • long-term funding
Which evidence and language must change?
DEPTH B • OPTIONAL

Challenge the false choice

OPTIONAL DEPTH7 MIN
“We must choose between local Reef projects and climate action.”
ACKNOWLEDGEBudgets and priorities matter…CHALLENGEbut the two scales do different jobs…PROVEthe evidence shows…
WORKBOOK • INDEPENDENT

Write the Reef Protection Brief

CORE10 MIN

8–10 persuasive sentences

  • Clear claim and priority
  • Three accurate evidence points
  • Fair local-resilience lens
  • Fair climate-action lens
  • One concession or qualification
  • Concrete call to action

Year 5: three purposeful expanded noun groups. Year 6: three precise verbs + two purposeful adverbials.

10:00
EVIDENCE + FAIRNESS TEST

Can the other lens recognise itself?

CORE4 MIN
REVISE NOWunsupported • vague • unfair • overcertain
EXIT EVIDENCE

State the priority without erasing the other lens

CORE2 MIN
Although ____________ matters because ____________,
decision-makers should prioritise ____________ because the evidence shows ____________.