The Aquademics program is sponsored by the Tetra company, the world's leading manufacturer of aquarium fish food, water treatments, and equipment. Aquademics also is supported by hundreds of independent pet retailers nationwide. Tetra, in coordination with the Animal House Pet Shop in Meadville, has offered this program free of charge to interested teachers in grades 3-5. A teacher's guide is included and blackline masters for reproduction. Our class is not following specific lesson plans, but we are using the materials and ideas that Tetra sent us to study aquarium life.
All students are responsible for aquarium maintenance.
Each morning one child feeds the fish and checks the water temperature. The class then records the day's temperature on individual charts that are kept at their desks. In addition to the upkeep of the aquarium, students suggest names for each fish. To see the names, pictures, and descriptions of our current fish, click here .