Turtle Talk Tots – Toddlers – 20 Minutes – Available: Onsite, Outreach, or Virtual
Using our senses and interactive play, use models and movement to help us learn the differences between sea turtles, land turtles, and aquatic turtles. Then we’ll learn how fun it can be to keep our oceans clean!
ELDS: ALP.1, ALP.3, CD.1
Turtle Talk – Pre-K – K – 30 Minutes – Available: Onsite, Outreach, or Virtual
Use models and movement to help us compare and contrast sea turtles, land turtles, and aquatic turtles. Then we’ll use problem solving skills to brainstorm ways to help the turtles thrive, and how we can play a part in keeping our oceans clean!
ELDS and SOLs: ALP.1, ALP.3, CD.1, K.7, K.11
Mini Movers – Pre-K – Kindergarten – 30 Minutes – Available: Onsite, Outreach
Price: $175 for one program, $150 each for multiple
Get your students up and moving while they learn how different animals move and why some animals don’t need to move to survive!
ELDS and SOLs: CD1.1, CD4.1, K.7
Sea Turtles from Egg to Adult – 1st – 3rd Grade – 50 Minutes – Available: Onsite, Outreach, or Virtual
Learn how a turtle’s life begins and the dangers it faces to survive. We will play a fun game to explore its life cycle from nest to adult. We will also discuss conservation efforts and brainstorm ways that we can help sea turtles survive.
SOLs: 1.5, 2.4, 2.5, 3.4
Life in the Chesapeake Bay – 1st – 3rd Grade – 50 Minutes – Available: Onsite, Outreach
In this program we will learn about the Chesapeake Bay, and the important roles different organisms play in different estuarine habitats. Then, we will split into stations and learn about oysters, plankton, and build a creature perfectly designed for its habitat.
SOLs: 1.5, 2.5, 3.4, 3.5
Out in the Ocean – 3rd – 4th Grade – 50 Minutes – Available: Onsite, Outreach, Virtual, and Assembly
Go on an adventure through the zones of the ocean and observe changes in animal adaptations in each zone! Along the way, students will learn how ocean properties, animal adaptations, and ocean geology change with depth.
SOLs: 3.4, 3.8, 4.7
Bay Watch – 4th – 6th Grade – 50 Minutes – Available: Onsite, Outreach
Get an in-depth look at the Chesapeake Bay and the organisms that make up its food web. We will split into stations, and dissect an oyster, investigate planktonic organisms, and build a food web model.
Sols: 4.3, 4.8, 6.8, 6.9
Wandering Through the Watershed – 4th – 6th – 50 Minutes – Available: Onsite, Outreach
Join us as we explore the many environments of the Chesapeake Bay watershed! Students will use models to learn about the environments and processes that impact the health of the Chesapeake Bay.
SOLs: 4.8, 6.8, 6.9
Sea Turtle Rescue – 4th – 12th Grade (Does not fit 5th grade SOLs) – 50 Minutes – Available: Onsite, Outreach
Become a stranding technician with the Virginia Aquarium Stranding Response Team! Get a hands-on look at what it takes to rescue a stranded sea turtle, and how we study deceased stranded sea turtles to help conservation efforts.
SOLs: 4.8, 6.9, LS.9, BIO.8
Inside the Squid – 7th – 12th Grade – 50 Minutes – Available: Onsite, Outreach
In this program, we’ll investigate the classification of squid, looking at the defining characteristics of different invertebrate phyla to see where the squid fits in. Then we’ll dissect the squid to show how it fits in with other mollusks!
SOLs: LS. 3, LS.11, BIO.6
