Marine Education Center
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In this unique three-hour field trip program, teachers choose from eight exciting
topics to create their own marine education experience. Field Trips are held at our
state-of-the-art facility. Our 100-acre site on Davis Bayou in Ocean Springs, Mississippi,
features indoor and outdoor classrooms, laboratories, nature trails and floating classrooms
in a unique coastal setting. Program fees begin at $12 per participant. Owl Pellet
dissections add $5 lab fee per participant. Shark and fish dissections add $10 lab
fee each per participant.
Contact us at 228.818.8095 or marine.educationFREEMississippi today to book your trip!
Choose three from the eight marine education modules below to create your custom three-hour field trip.
Â鶹´«Ã½ researchers are leaders in the field of cultivating copepods that are critical food sources for newly hatched fish in aquaculture systems. Students begin the session with a walk to the bayou and pulling a net to collect plankton. Returning to the laboratory classroom, students examine collected specimens under microscopes, identify zooplankton, phytoplankton, holoplankton, and meroplankton, and learn the differences between them. Participants gain an understanding of the importance of plankton in the food web and how changes in populations can impact the food chain in a coastal environmental system.
Students work in pairs to dissect a preserved owl pellet to understand the unique digestion system of owls and their diet.
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