Friday, 22 November 2013

Barnhill Memorial – Ocean Discovery

We’ve had Grade 6 students from Barnhill Memorial School visiting the Huntsman this week to take part in the Ocean Discovery Program.  While on campus the students explored the intertidal zone, got up close to marine invertebrates, such as rock crabs, Acadian hermit crabs, sea urchins, and scallops, had lunch around the touch tank, and used the microscopes to view plankton collected from Passamaquoddy Bay.  It was three days filled with excitement and shouts of amazement and surprise!  Hands-on learning at its best!       

Finding sideswimmers under the seaweed.

Sketching a sea cucumber.
 
The students learned to identify if a rock crab is male or female.

Playing plankton bingo.

The view through the microscope...how many species can you ID? 

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