Ocean Discovery - St. Stephen Middle School

This week Grade 6 students from St. Stephen Middle School have been visiting the Huntsman to take part in the Ocean Discovery Program.  While here the students were introduced to the microscopic world of plankton, studied marine arthropods and non-arthropods, learned about the amazing life of lobsters, had lunch around the touch tank, and one of the classes was able to explore the intertidal zone.  There was lots of learning and fun as you can see in the pictures below.

Tomorrow we will visit the students at their school to conduct an echinoderm behaviour experiment and learn about the challenges of measuring biodiversity.

Learning how to use the microscope.

Drawing phytoplankton and zooplankton.

View of a copepod and lots of phytoplankton.

Making a classification system.

The students in the aquarium lab.

Drawing and describing a hermit crab.

The black spots are the scallop's eyes!

Genny's lobster talk.

Having time with Pumpkin the calico lobster.

A one year old lobster specimen.

The girls found green crabs in the intertidal zone!

Beautiful blood star.

A sea star with its stomach ejected.

Fun at the touch tank during lunch break.