K-3 Click on this button to print a MAP to be used with your tour. Coral reefs often look crowded with fish and other species. Have students count how many different kinds of animals they can see or count how many of one species they can see in the Caribbean Tunnel Exhibit. Fish come in almost every shape and size. Have students find fish that resemble familiar shapes such as circles, squares, triangles, rectangles.
Coral is actually a tiny living animal.
Reefs are formed by millions of individual corals living together. Have students estimate how old the reef in the Caribbean Tunnel Exhibit would be if it were really alive. There are two basic seasons in the Amazon, wet and dry. This gallery represents the dry season. In the wet season, the Amazon standard units River overflows its banks and water rises to the tree tops.