Enhance learning with hands-on Laboratory Experiences
Get up close with marine animals, engage in organism encounters, conduct exciting experiments, and tackle engineering challenges in our labs. Many lessons can be brought to your location.
Critter Bins: Adaptations Focused
Overview
Students interact with a variety of organisms from Long Island Sound as they focus on structural and behavioral adaptations.
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June (Organism diversity is based on season availability)
Student Limit: Up to 25
Science Standard: LS1-1
Critter Bins: Taxonomic Classification Focused
Overview
Students interact with a variety of organisms from Long Island Sound while using a dichotomous key to identify marine life.
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June (Organism diversity is based on season availability)
Student Limit: Up to 25
Science Standard: LS1-1
Lobsters and Climate Change
Overview
Investigate how the lobster population has changed in the Sound. Students will be working through a series of stations which includes a live lobster!
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June
Student Limit: Up to 25
Science Standard: LS2-2, LS2-6, LS3-5
A Changing Sound: Introduction to Oceanography Data Analysis
Overview
Examine Project Oceanology’s historical dataset and create graphs showing trends in water quality and species diversity.
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June
Student Limit: Up to 25
Science Standard: LS2-1, ESS2-4, ESS3-4
Critter Bins: Adaptations Focused
Overview
Students interact with a variety of organisms from Long Island Sound as they focus on structural and behavioral adaptations.
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June (Organism diversity is based on season availability)
Student Limit: Up to 25
Science Standard: LS1-1
Critter Bins: Taxonomic Classification Focused
Overview
Students interact with a variety of organisms from Long Island Sound while using a dichotomous key to identify marine life.
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June (Organism diversity is based on season availability)
Student Limit: Up to 25
Science Standard: LS1-1
Lobsters and Climate Change
Overview
Investigate how the lobster population has changed in the Sound. Students will be working through a series of stations which includes a live lobster!
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June
Student Limit: Up to 25
Science Standard: LS2-2, LS2-6, LS4-5
A Changing Sound: Introduction to Oceanography Data Analysis
Overview
Examine Project Oceanology’s historical dataset and create graphs showing trends in water quality and species diversity.
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June
Student Limit: Up to 25
Science Standard: LS2-1, ESS2-4, ESS3-4
A Changing Sound: Introduction to Oceanography Data Analysis
Overview
Dig into Projects Oceanology’s historical data set to look for changes in water quality characteristics and organism diversity and abundance over time.
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June
Student Limit: Up to 25 (recommended for Grade 5 and up)
Science Standard: LS2-1, ESS2-4, ESS3-4
Critter Bins: Adaptations Focused
Overview
Students interact with a variety of organisms from Long Island Sound as they focus on structural and behavioral adaptations.
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June (Organism diversity is based on season availability)
Student Limit: Up to 25
Science Standard: LS1-1
Energy Scientists: Test-a-Blade Wind Power
Overview
Test different shapes, sizes, and materials to determine which combination will make the most efficient wind turbine design.
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June
Student Limit: Up to 25
Science Standard: PS3-4, ESS3-1, ETS1-1, ETS1-2, ETS1-3
Food Webs
Overview
Students will interact with organisms that build a food chain and then work together to create a model food web out of species found in Long Island Sound to take back to their classroom.
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June (Organism diversity is based on season availability)
Student Limit: Up to 25
Science Standard: LS2-1, PS3-1
Schooling Fish
Overview
Observe the behavior of different species of fish in Long Island Sound and gather evidence to determine if they are schooling or solitary fish.
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June (Organism diversity is based on season availability)
Student Limit: Up to 25
Science Standard: LS1-1, LS2-1
Critter Bins: Adaptations
Overview
Get hands-on with a variety of organisms from Long Island Sound while learning about structural and behavioral adaptations.
Highlights
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June (Organism diversity is based on season availability)
Student Limit: Up to 25
Science Standard: K-LS1-1, 1-LS3-1, 2-LS4-1
“My favorite part (as a professional) was the behavior of our students. They were pretty consistently on task and asked great questions, and provided fantastic answers. My favorite part (personally) was discovering that squids have teeny tiny beaks! Who knew?”
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