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Thank you to all our partners, speakers, teachers, parents and guardians for supporting over 500,000 students to learn live during this period of school closures. It has been an amazing and heart-warming period for the team and flat-out as well. We have now taken a step back and are planning for the future of live learning, with the knowledge that a number of public bodies and celebrities have stepped up as well.

We have six live lessons designed for lower secondary/middle school students for AXA Coral Live this year. These are aligned to core curriculum topics for the Living Things module, as well as exposing students to science careers and the application of science concepts in the real world.

The lessons are timed in the UK / Europe for after the school day and are great to extend science knowledge for home learning. Click the teacher option for booking to submit questions and shout outs. Click the student option to get the calendar booking information to share with students.

For the USA / North America, the lessons are during the school day and can be used in class.

As always, the lessons will be available to view on catch-up on the lesson pages linked below after broadcast.

Live lessons | KS3 (ages 11-14) Coral Live

This first lesson for Coral Live is an introduction to the coral animal and is a great way to start off the learning journey for students.

We are excited to be joined by Dr Kristen Marhaver, who will talk to us about the life cycle of the coral animal and how this might compare to more familiar animals. Fingers crossed, that we will be able to feed some of the coral babies live with you.

We can''t promise that we will be swimming with sharks for this one, but we will be investigating how sharks have adapted to be the ultimate ocean predator.

Food webs on the coral reef are a great way of testing familiar knowledge but in a new context. It''s also fun to meet some of the extraordinary creatures that can be found on the reef.

The coral reef is facing an uncertain future and is one of the habitats on the frontline of the current climate crisis. We will discuss why the reef is threatened by human activity and what we can all do to conserve the reef for the future.

Students will have had a chance to speak to those working on the coral reef as a career in the previous lessons, but this lesson is a real focus on how students from all backgrounds can aspire to become a marine scientist.

Looking forward to seeing you all on the reef!

We have six live lessons designed for upper secondary/high school geography students for AXA Coral Live this year. These are aligned to the ecosystems topic for exam classes.

We have three lessons for GCSE (ages 14-16) and three for A-Level (ages 16-18). The content will be the same for each level, but the complexity of explanation and the Q&A will be differentiated. The lessons will be delivered by marine scientists working on the Curacao reefs in the Caribbean as a case study.

Students and teachers can choose to join live in the classroom, set for home-learning or watch on catch-up. Use the teacher booking link to submit questions and shout outs and the student booking link to share the lesson for home learning.

Live lessons | KS4 (ages 14-16) Coral Live

This first lesson for Coral Live is an introduction to the coral ecosystem. The live lesson will cover the distribution, characteristics and functioning of tropical coral reefs. 

This human activity live lesson will cover the value of coral reef ecosystems to humans and the planet, as well as the threats that human activity poses to the reef.

This lesson considers the future of coral ecosystems and reflects on the different steps being taken to mitigate human impact on the reef as well as the work to conserve and restore reefs.

Live lessons | KS5 (ages 16-18) Coral Live

This first lesson for Coral Live is an introduction to the coral ecosystem. The live lesson will cover the distribution, characteristics and functioning of tropical coral reefs. 

This human activity live lesson will cover the value of coral reef ecosystems to humans and the planet, as well as the threats that human activity poses to the reef.

This lesson considers the future of coral ecosystems and reflects on the different steps being taken to mitigate human impact on the reef as well as the work to conserve and restore reefs.

Looking forward to seeing you all on the reef!

Join us for live lessons from the coral reef this November. We have science lessons for key stages 2 and 3 (ages 7-14) and geography lessons for key stages 4 and 5 (ages 14-18).

Live lessons|Booking open for AXA Coral Live 2020

We have listened to your feedback and have made this year''s live lessons from the coral reef more closely linked to curriculum topics.

For primary aged students, we have six lessons covering topics across the ''Living things'' theme as well as the chance to speak to members of the science team.

For lower secondary and middle school students, we have timed our lessons for after school STEM clubs in the UK and for mornings in the USA, with a suite of lessons using the coral reef as a case study for students to apply existing knowledge and skills to new contexts.

For upper secondary and high school students, we have developed lessons preparing students for exam-based questions on ecosystems and human activity using the coral reef as a case study.

We are still developing some of the associated resources, and in these changing times wanted to give you the opportunity to book these lessons as soon as possible.

We will be sending out further emails to specific subject and age mailing groups as these resources are finalised.

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