It also sends teachers' guides to all groups before they visit so teachers can prepare, Popyk said. When the aquarium adds more buildings and rooms to the facility next year, it will also add classrooms where teachers and students can work on site, Popyk said. The expansion will include a teleconferencing room, where schools can link to the aquarium via video. But if the Tichenor tour was any indication, students prefer coming to the aquarium. There's nothing like seeing and doing for yourself.
Students can touch some of the creatures, such as the eight-eyed horseshoe crab.
The field trip for the students at Tichenor was the final activity of a unit on endangered species. Tichenor students came to the aquarium with a study sheet full of questions about the different exhibits. Some students didn't mind the work. It's way better than the classroom. The classroom bores me.