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Hosting the Conservation Research Club!
Send us photos of your Conservation Research Club meetings and let us know what types of topics you discuss!
A big part of being an EcoMarine is to spread the word of what EcoMarines is all about which is….. protecting our local environments and wildlife by being conservation leaders! The last term of the year is all about celebrating your work as EcoMarines and promoting what we do to your school and greater community.
EcoMarines is a not-for-profit which means all the money we get goes straight back into our school programs! So we always need help with fundraising money. If your school wants too, you can celebrate Spread the Word with fundraising for us!
We want you to have fun and be creative! Your video should educate and inspire your school community to make some changes and help protect our environment! The winning video will be announced at The Wave and win an exciting prize – a Bunnings voucher for your school to help with future environmental projects! We’ll also show the winning video video to other schools, share on our social media and add it to our website.
Choose an initiative or event you want to make your video about e.g. recycling or waste-free lunches. Videos are a great way to spread your message and engage your community to create behaviour change!
Recruit your video team! Do you have tech/drama teachers or other students that could help you spread your message? Ask them if they could help with this challenge and maybe they could star in your video as well (with permission).
Create your video… Make it engaging, exciting and educational! The video should be between 1-2 minutes in length and please wear your EcoMarines shirts.
And don’t forget to send your video to us using the form below! You can make the video at any time of the year, but it must be submitted in Term 4!
The winning video will be announced at The Wave in November. We will also play the winning video at the event and your school will win an exciting prize that will be announced soon!
We all know that students pay close attention to social media these days! Therefore, utilizing social media to spread information about conservation and looking after our environment is a great way to reach many people.
EcoMarines has a Facebook and Instagram account with many community members following us and we bet your school also has a pretty good social media following too. So this challenge gives you the opportunity to be a social media eco-influencer! Create 3-4 posts about a certain eco topic and send it in to us to takeover the EcoMarines socials for a week!
Sign up for the challenge by notifying the EcoMarines team. The team will then work with you to find out a particular time that you can take over the EcoMarines socials.
All you have to do is create the content (main feed posts and stories), figure out when you want the posts to be published and in what order, then send it into EcoMarines and we will post it for you. You can then share the EcoMarines posts on your personal accounts and on your school socials (with permission) to ensure the greatest reach.
Meet with your EcoMarines Crew to come up with your social media takeover theme or topic. Perhaps you have a topic that is a current environmental issue in your school or community. Or, maybe you realize that students have lacking knowledge about a certain ecosystem or animal.
The options are endless as long as the topic is about the environment, how we can help and is of course educational and informative.
Create your content! You can get as creative as you like with creating content. But remember, to spread your message, it is important to create main feed posts and corresponding stories. As a rule of thumb, main feed posts give the main point of the issue and stories posts can go into more or extra detail. Make sure the content has a good mix of pictures and words, fun and colourful elements and easy to understand language.
We would like you to create 3-4 main feed posts and a few corresponding stories…. don’t forget captions to go along with the posts too! Here are some websites that can help you create aesthetically-pleasing and fun content:
Send your content into the EcoMarines team! Don’t forget to tell us the posting schedule and what times you think we should post the content to reach the most amount of people.
We will confirm the scheduling and remind you to share the content and we will also tag your school. If possible, ask your admin team if the school can post the same content on their socials too.
Once the social media takeover is completed, the EcoMarines team will send through all the data of how your posts faired including reach, likes, shares and more!
Need some inspiration?
Check out the social media takeover posts below:
Do you have an interest in learning more about current and relevant environmental themes, why not start a book club dedicated to conservation research with your EcoMarines crew? You could look into environmental policies, scientific articles and other forms of conservation literature and discuss what you have learnt.
This is a great way to collectively learn about environmental issues in-depth and foster the growth of your students’ passions in protecting the environment!
This challenge was inspired by the EcoMarines at Brisbane Bayside State School!
Schedule a meeting with your ambassadors and support crew – anyone who is interested in discussing conservation research.
Here are some questions to consider when planning these regular club meetings:
Conservation research is so vast and varied – there are so many topics you could cover. We have provided you with some relevant and interesting topics below that you could look into:
Hosting the Conservation Research Club!
Send us photos of your Conservation Research Club meetings and let us know what types of topics you discuss!
the EcoMarines at Clayfield created an informative, educational workshop titled ‘Welcome to the Ocean’. They presented this workshop to their school community and also to their community service group. This is great way to share information about local environments.
Tangalooma EcoMarines Foundation Ltd is a registered Charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission (ACNC) and has Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR1) status with the Australian Tax Office (ABN 40 168 034 008). All eligible donations are tax-deductible.