Royal West Academy - Day 3 & 4

Yesterday the students started the day in the lab conducting behaviour experiments with a number of different animals, including barnacles, crabs, and echinoderms.  After lunch the students started to analyse their data and put together posters for their projects.  Later in the afternoon we headed out into the sunshine to mark green crabs at a local beach.  These crabs are an invasive species that we have been monitoring for the past few years.  A few of the girls were the 'crab whispers' and came to us with handfuls of crabs to be marked.  Good job girls!

Today the students presented their projects and are now on their way home.  Thank you for a great week!  Come back and visit again in the future!

Determining the effect of temperature on the feeding rate of barnacles.

Conducting an experiment to see how arthropods react to light.

Analysing osmoregulation in four different species.

Determining if there is a correlation between size and speed of flipping for sea urchins.

Working on their poster.

One of the behaviour posters.

The hunt is on!

Wow, that is a lot of crabs!