The past two days we have welcomed both English and French Immersion grade 6 students from St. Stephen Middle School as part of The Ocean Discovery Program.
One of the highlights for the students, and I think the teachers also was the plankton lab. The students really enjoyed using the microscopes in the aquarium lab to look at the microscopic plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton). It is exciting to see the students find an interesting planktonic species and want to show the other students in the class or to hear shouts of amazement when the students see the zooplankton for the first time! After playing plankton bingo and doing some drawings, the students were asked some questions about where these plants and animals fit in the food web. They quickly realized that phytoplankton and zooplankton, which they had never heard of, let alone seen, are vital to all other life in the oceans. It is amazing what lives in a drop of seawater!
Do you have a class of grade 6 students who would love to use microscopes and see what lives in a drop of seawater? Visit our website for more information, www.huntsmanmarine.ca/html/grade_6.html.
Intensely studying the plankton.
Happy as a clam!
Drawing and describing a rock crab.
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