Wow, what a beautiful day to have the grade 5/6 students from Deer Island Community School visit the Huntsman to take part in the Ocean Discovery Program! The temperature is an amazing 27 degrees Celsius! Great for exploring the beach and the students and parents got to have a pretty nice ferry crossing. Hopefully, the weather will be just as nice when I head to Deer Island, with my sea stars and urchins to complete the activities for the program.
Just about every day I learn something new but today I learned quite a few new things! Since many of the students either have family that fish lobster or work at the processing plant on the island I also learned a thing or two during my lobster presentation. Such as, how to tell the gender of a lobster just by looking at the size of the tail or how to tell if a female is ready to have eggs by looking at her swimmerets. Hopefully, the students also learned a couple of things about the amazing arthropod we call the American lobster. I think they certainly enjoyed meeting our demonstration lobster, Jaws!
Thank you to the Grade 5/6 students, their teacher, and parent chaperones for a wonderful day exploring the marine environment and its inhabitants!
Would your grade 6 students enjoy learning about lobsters and other marine arthropods? Check out the information on the Grade 6 Ocean Discovery Program, www.huntsmanmarine.ca/html/grade_6.html.
Green crabs the students collected.
Drawing plankton species found under the microscope.
Choosing invertebrates to study.
Jaws!
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