Quispamsis - Day One

This morning the first of three groups of Grade 6 students from Quispamsis began their day by learning about how scientists group and identify animals.  Also they heard a lecture-style presentation on the local lobster and spent some more time in the lab learning about and identifying plankton.  Due to high tide the students were unable to visit Brandy Cove, but instead were able to watch the feeding of the seals.  During this presentation the students learnt about what the seals eat, how much and where we at the Huntsman get their food. They also learnt about how fast the seals are, a little about their physical appearance and what interesting behaviours they exhibit in the wild that to us may look like circus tricks.

 

These students are using various objects to start their very own classification system.

 

Here the students are braving the rain and waiting for the seal feeding to begin.

 

You can see some students were not interested in getting wet and chose to watch from inside.

 

Here Loki slides onto the rock to grab his lunch.

 

Here Snorkel jumps out of the water to tap his nose onto the teaching tool. The behaviours our trainers have the seals perform are all things that they would naturally do in the wild.

 

This student was busy drawing and classifying the Rock crab.

 

In the theatre the students learnt about Homarus americanus; the local lobster.

 

These students are taking turns viewing animal and plant plankton under the microscope.