Ocean Discovery - Harry Miller

Six classes from Harry Miller Middle School took part in the Grade 6 Ocean Discovery program over the past few weeks.  While on campus the students played plankton bingo, studied live marine invertebrates during a classification lab, tested if size affects the flipping rate of echinoderms and had lunch around the touch tank.  Here are some photos of our fun.

Learning about the amazing life of lobsters.

Hands-on time with a live lobster.

Viewing plankton through the microscope.

There were lots of copepods in the plankton sample.

Fun at the touch tank during lunch break.

Beautiful purple sunstar found in the touch tank.

Timing the flipping rate of an urchin.

Sea stars do not like being upside down.

Working on a classification activity in the lab. 

The students observed arthropods in the lab including this acadian hermit crab...

and non-arthropods including this blood star.

Using the field guide to look up Latin names.

Someone found a soft-shelled clam on the beach. 

The students looking through the seaweed for creatures with one of our interpreters.