Vernal Pool Exploration

A Mass Audubon Educator will introduce vernal pool habitats. Students will have an opportunity to dip net in the pool collecting organisms that live there. Once some organisms are collected the students will observe them with a focus on special physiological adaptations. The Educator will lead a discusssion of the life cycles of various vernal pool inhabitants. Students will take notes or create drawings of the organisms they collected, and then release them back into the pool.