Students learn what they can do to help maintain a healthy marine environment.
Students explore the magic of these beautiful creatures by role playing and watching for live dolphins off the pier. Includes a discussion of animal grouping and classification. Students become junior marine biologists by digging for sand crabs, sand dollars, and shells. They learn about tides and waves, and explore the habitat formed by drift kelp. Students collect plankton samples from the pier and examine them through different microscopes in the lab.