Shark Week - Young Explorers

We had a wonderful group of students attend our Shark Week Young Explorers program on August 7.  In fact it was the most popular program this summer with 36 students in attendance.  The students participated in activities such as observing and touching the skates (a relative of sharks), making great white shark bookmarks, playing sharks and herring outside (a couple of time…lol), drawing life-size sharks with sidewalk chalk, using balloons to learn about shark livers, and creating some great artwork about shark myths.  The students also had a chance to watch the seals being feed, play in the invertebrate touch pool, and check out some hagfish (very slimy!) in the university lab.  Below are some pictures from the day.

For more information or to register your child for the remaining two Young Explorer programs call (506) 529-1200 or email huntsman@huntsmanmarine.ca. 

 

Learning about the skates.

The skates seemed to enjoy the attention.

Making bookmarks (and checking out the special visitor!).

Some sharks, like these dogfish, are small...

...but others, like the basking shark, are very large!

Using their creativity to illustrate some shark myths.

Sharks and herring!