Tuesday we welcomed a group of excited Grade 6 students from Tobique Valley Middle School to campus to participate in the Ocean Discovery Program. While the students were here they viewed plankton from Passamaquoddy Bay using the microscopes, studied the classification of local marine invertebrates, such as Acadian hermit crabs and rock crabs, had lunch around the touch tank, explored the intertidal zone at Brandy Cove, finding mussels, barnacles, periwinkles, sideswimmers, and green crabs (one was only a few millimeters long!), watched Snorkel and Loki, the harbour seals have their supper, and got up close and personal with Lily, the blue lobster. It was wonderful to be able to introduce the ocean to some of the students who had never been previously!
Below are some highlights from our great day.
Playing plankton bingo.
View of phytoplankton through the microscope.
Drawing phytoplankton and zooplankton species.
Fun at the touch tank!
Measuring a scallop, carefully...they squirt water!
Drawing and describing a hermit crab.
Snorkel, the harbour seal.
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