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Salt Marsh Exploration Field Trip (3-5)

Field Trip (2-3 hours): Give your class the chance to explore a real salt marsh. Students will learn to identify live minnows collected in fish traps, handle live animals that inhabit the salt marsh, such as crabs and clams, and find ‘;nature’s recyclers’ (tiny snails) in the marsh. The program will close with a discussion of their creature adaptations. Fall and spring only.

Locations: Joppa Flats, Plum Bush Salt Marsh

Allergy Note: This program may feature live crustaceans, mollusks, and fish.?

Program Location(s):

  • Joppa Flats, Newburyport

  • Other location

Grades:

3, 4, 5

Pricing and Financial Aid:

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Learning Standards Supported:

  • 3-LS4-3 - Biological Evolution--Unity and Diversity - env. constraints on organisms survival

  • 4-LS1-1 - From Molecules to Organisms--Structures and Processes - animal/plant, internal/external structures

  • 5-LS2-1 - Ecosystems--Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics - movement of matter through food web

Contact:

For more information email us - [email protected].