Images tagged "mangrove-education"

Student at Abaco Central High School looks through a microviewer to get a better look at a decorator crab.
Amy Heemsoth, our Director of Education, shows students at Abaco Central High School how chitons are able to attach themselves to rocks.
The upside jellyfish intrigues students at Abaco Central High School. Students know not to touch this stinging creature.
Students at Abaco Central High School carefully touch sea urchins for the first time.
FRIENDS Program Assistant AJ McIntosh and Abaco Central Alumni, shows students where the tube feet are located on a sea star.
Students at Abaco Central High School learn about macroalgae, which is better known as seaweed. As the students feel the rigidity of the macroalgae, Amy Heemsoth, our Director of Education, explains that many species of macroalgae obtain calcium carbonate in their structure. When they die, the calcium carbonate is broken down and helps to create more sand.
Forest Heights Academy students are excited to see a pufferfish. The next step is for them to use books to identify the species.
FRIENDS Education Officer Cassandra Abraham helps a student at Forest Heights to identify a sea urchin.
An 11th grader at Forest Heights Academy checks out a decorator crab.
10th grade biology students at William Knibb High School.
Discovery Bay Marine Lab Outreach Officer, Shanna Thomas discusses how brittle stars feed to students at William Knibb High School.
Students at William Knibb High School are in awe at how the brittle star moves its arms back and forth like a snake, in order to move.
FRIENDS Program Assistant AJ McIntosh allows students to hold sea stars and sea urchins, so that students at Forest Heights Academy can feel the tube feet moving on their hands.
Here is a close-up view of the sea star's tube feet. The sea star is being held upside down.
Students at Forest Heights Academy hold a sea urchin, sea star, and sea cucumber, which they learned are animals that are in the Phylum Echinodermata.
An inquisitive student at Forest Heights Academy observes the behavior of a sea star. She had many questions for us.
Students at Forest Heights Academy form a mangrove food web.
Students at Abaco Central High School participate in a food web activity. Each student is given an animal or plant that can be found in the mangrove food web. A young lady shows that she will be portraying turtle seagrass.
Students at Abaco Central High School are excited to plant their mangrove seedlings after nurturing them for the past 7 months.
Before planting the mangrove propagules, student must wade out into the mangrove mud. This Abaco Central High School student generously carries the mangrove seedlings to their new home.

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