Students visiting the Aquarium as part of a Structured School Program participate in activities that reinforce the concepts introduced in the curriculum. Students meet in the classroom for an introduction and then participate in grade specific, theme-based activities.
See below for program descriptions and grade-level standards:
Habitats
Students will discover South Carolina habitats and what living things need to survive as they play a habitat matching game and meet some of the Aquarium’s live animals.
Standards: K-2.1, 1-2.1, 1-2.5, 2-2.1, 2-2.3
Communities
(Food Chains & Adaptations)
Students will participate in an interactive game as well as meet some of the Aquarium’s live animals as they discuss food chains and the adaptations organisms need for survival.
Watersheds
Environmental Scene Investigation (E.S.I.)! Students become investigators in an environmental investigation. They will run tests, examine case studies and diagnose data to discover who is to blame for the watershed problems.
Human Impacts
(Sea Turtles)
Sea Turtle Emergency Room! Students will diagnose 2 injured sea turtles by examining x-rays, sifting through fecal samples, running blood tests and doing external observations. They will discover why sea turtles strand and what they can do to help.
