On Saturday, November 22 many of the
Bay and Paul environmental group students took a field trip to the Maritime
Aquarium. There we met up with a group of students which are a part of a
program which is run there and is very similar to Evolutions. The day
started out with us going into their classroom and we got to start an ice
breaker. Once that was done we got the amazing opportunity to go behind the
scene and not only get to see the shark tank from above it, but we also got to
feed the sharks. After that we got to take a tour of the aquarium getting to
see different things like sharks, turtles, otters, meerkats, many different
types of fish and frogs, as well as many other types of animal the aquarium has
to offer. We go to see the seals get fed and pet sting rays and moon jellies.
Throughout this tour we get to learn about a lot of different careers that you
could have in a aquarium in particular different jobs in science that pertain
to the different jobs at the aquarium. After this we go to see an I-max movie
about the coral reefs and learn about some of the animals that live there.
After this we got to go back to their classroom before we had to leave to
dissect a shark. With this we learned about different things about
its anatomy and things like how big its liver is compared to the rest of its
body and why this important to it anatomy and things like how the fact that its
liver is less dense then the water helps it to swim and not sink.
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