Each morning, children gather in the ‘Reef BG room’ of the Townsville school to watch the aquatic inhabitants start their ...
World-first clownfish nursery at QLD school hopes to save Nemo
There’s Myrtle the turtle in one corner, Mr Moofy the cowfish in another, and – darting through the coral in between– are scores and scores of clownfish. But watching from behind the glass of the room’s 20 aquarium tanks is another school – the students of Belgian Gardens State.
Students feed and care for fish at the school's own clownfish nursery.
This story appeared in the August 2016 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.
