Critter Exploration: Living Fossils
Overview
Students read a story about horseshoe crab anatomy and investigate their life cycle in order to create their own horseshoe crab model.
Highlights
Program Type: Lab
Program Duration: 1.25 Hours
Trip Season: Sept-June
Student Limit: Up to 20
Ocean Literacy Principle: #5: The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.
Trip Description
Horseshoe crabs have been on Earth as long as the dinosaurs! How have they been successful for so long? Students will find out as they rotate through stations to investigate a horseshoe crab’s adaptations, exploring their eye structure, eggs, anatomy, and interacting with a live horseshoe crab.