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 experimentationin 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