Ocean Discovery - Blacks Harbour

Today we had the Grade 6 students from Blacks Harbour School on campus to take part in the Ocean Discovery Program.  While here the students studied marine invertebrates, played plankton bingo, had lunch around the touch tank and learned about lobsters.  It was a great day!

In a few weeks I will visit the class at their school to complete a few more marine related experiments and activities.  See you soon!

Having fun using the microscopes.

Phytoplankton and zooplankton.

Drawing some of the plankton they saw under the microscope.

You never know what you might find in the touch tank.  This is a spiny sunstar.

Checking out the skates at lunch.

Rock crab in the lab.

Learning about latin names.

Having a look at the scallop's many eyes.

Clyde the 27lbs lobster specimen.

Can you spot the little lobster?