shedd aquarium by: emily hookom, marissa durling, and kristy legerski
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Shedd Aquarium
By: Emily Hookom, Marissa Durling, and Kristy Legerski
Creekside Elementary – 3rd Grade
• 5 classes • 119 students
• November 8, 2011
Cost:• $10 per student
Departing Creekside- 9:30 amArriving at Shedd- 10:30 am
2 buses 119 students
1 bus- $35 mileage Hourly Total- $220
$255x2 buses= $510$5 per student
Buses park free on canal street
Groups:
• 8 students per group• 1 chaperone in each group
• teachers and parents
Lunch:
• All students must bring sack lunches• Shedd Aquarium Cafeteria
• Extra $1/student will be used to provide lunches to those who may have forgotten
Focus:• Adaptation• Body parts• Movement• Habitats• Structure • Function
Fish Files:
Investigate characteristics
of fishes through observation
and experimentation
in this hands-on class!
$4 per student
Fish Files:
• Students investigate the characteristics of different fishes and use a magnifying lens for an even closer look at one of them.
• Using observation and data collection, students conduct experiments to discover why fishes look the way they do and how they are adapted to their surroundings.
• Home to one-third of all living things
• Anacondas, piranhas, spiders, rays, crocodiles, tetras, turtles and tambaqui
• See how the region’s animals and plants adapt to the water’s dramatic annual rise and fall
Additional Sites to See:
• Amazon Rising• Waters of the World • Caribbean Reef
• Green sea turtle, moray eel, regal rays, parrotfish and sharks
• 90,000-gallon circular habitat
• 80 habitats• Big and small rivers• Our local waters • Coastal kelp forests to the seafloor• Ecosystems of Islands and Lakes• Giant octopus, blue iguanas, knife
fish, moon jellies and sea stars
Learning Standards:
• 11.A.2b, 11.A.2c, 11.A.2d, 11.A.2e• 12.B.2a, 12.B.2b
Departing the Shedd- 1:30pmArriving back at Creekside-
2:30pm
1:15pm- All groups meet in lobby of Shedd1:20pm- Start heading to the buses
Leaving the
Shedd:
Debrief: Class will discuss their
favorite and least favorite part of the trip
Resources:• http://www.sheddaquarium.org/
pdf/education/fish_files.pdf
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