For the second year I have partnered up with Collier's Migrant Student Program and Manatee Middle School to run an afterschool marine dissection program. I have a total of ten kids enrolled in the program. It lasts for 8 weeks. The first 5 weeks we spend dissecting specimens from various phylums (Sea Anemone-Cnidarians, Squid-mollusks, Sea Star-Echinoderm, Blue Crab-Arthropods, and Shark-Vertebrates)Then we take the kids on two field trips: 1)a lagoon exploration at Tigertail Lagoon, and 2) and estuary boat trip in Rookery Bay. The last week is a review of material learned and a graduation ceremony.
Week 1 Sea Anemone Dissection
Week 2 Squid Dissection
Week 3 Sea Star Dissection
Week 4 Blue Crab Dissection
Week 5 Spiny Dogfish Dissection
Week 6 Tigertail Beach Exploration
Week 7 Rookery Bay Boat Trip
Week 8 Graduation
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