LIFE IN THE SEA Students use their basic knowledge of life cycles and apply it to marine plants and animals. Discovery stations relate life cycles to habitats, food chains, the role of decomposers in the ocean, reproduction, and adaptations for survival. Offered on-site only. Each day the ocean pounds the rocky shore, then recedes at low tde, leaving rocks exposed with shallow pools of water called tide pools. Students will observe and touch tide pool animals, such as sea stars, snails, hermit crabs and sea urchins, to learn how they are adapted to the harsh, wave swept environment of the rocky shore.
Surfers ride the rushing water looking for that perfect break and waiting for that one great set.
Learn what powerful forces form those perfect waves and how ocean currents tides, winds, gravity, earthqueakes, and planetary rotation combine to make the ocean move under those boards. Offered on site or as an outreach program. From wetsuits and regulators to nets and water samples, we'll show you how oceanographers have brought back specimens and data. Offered as an outreach program only. Many animals begin life as microorganisms too small to see with the naked eye.