Young Explorer Marine Biology Week

Every summer the Huntsman Fundy Discovery Aquarium offers Young Explorer Wednesdays and a Young Explorer Marine Biology Week. Today we finished up the Young Explorer week learning about plankton. Some of the other themes we covered during the week were the intertidal zone, the ocean, seals and the deep sea. Here are a few pictures from our fun week.

Exploring the intertidal zone.

The students found lots of crabs!

Identifying the animals they collected.

The students also found rock gunnel fish on the beach.

Preparing food for the touch tank.

Feeding the crabs, skates, flounder, rock gunnels, sea stars, lumpfish, eels and lobster in the touch tanks.

Squid eggs on the beach.

All the marine debris the students collected from the beach.

Making marine debris into art.

Experimenting to see how ocean currents are made.

Aquarium scavenger hunt.

How many pennies can your boat hold?

Napping harbour seals.

Making a deep sea lander.

Testing out their lander.

Exploring the ocean floor.

Collecting plankton.

Identifying plankton using the microscopes. 

Having fun playing outside.

We have a few more Young Explorer Wednesdays this summer where we will explore Microscopic Life on August 17 and Lobsters and their arthropod relatives on August 24.