CARE in the Classroom
This year, students in Cincinnati, Ohio walk into their classroom to find a surprise waiting for them: a brightly lit nano tank teeming with invertebrates and fish, a table full of ocean artifacts they can touch, and an interactive presentation that brings a coral reef into their Midwestern school.
Tanks in Classrooms: Setting Up an Educational Aquarium
Elementary teacher Brandon Rutherford created a student lead coral reef program at his school. He shares secrets for using fish tanks and reef aquariums in classrooms to teach science.
Jellyfish Art Intrigues Teachers at NSTA Conference
Teachers learn how jellyfish in the classroom can be a powerful tool to inspire curiosity in students and meet science learning standards
Reef Aquarium Keeping Helps Students Develop Scientific Skills
Should science be taught to young children? One teacher argues that it is important for the academic and social development of children.
Classroom Aquarium Keeping Empowers Young Students
My students learned the first lesson of aquarium keeping: that aquarists are in total control over the life inside their tanks. It was immediately apparent that an adult wouldn’t step into help them and the future of the living things in the aquarium depended on them. With time, the care they took to keep the fish alive and happy started to transfer to how they treated others and, later, themselves.
Sandhi 善迪 says:
Amazing spot. I love this part of knowledge: "Every small, free square inch is quickly occupied by Xeniidae corals. But, they seem to serve a very important function, preparing the substrate, and binding every piece of coral rubble together so sponges and coralline algae can finish the job by cementing everything up. Thus, later, coral larvae can settle on this newly stabilized real estate." Thank you, VincentNew Ocean-Inspired Designs from Walt Smith says:
[…] over 5 years ago, at the tail end of 2017, Fiji’s government unilaterally banned coral exports, leaving WSI with nothing more than fish and invertebrates to send to customers around the globe. […]CORAL New Issue “FREE THE FISHES” Inside Look says:
[…] of Contents for the May/June 2023 issue of CORAL Magazine. You can view this TOC online. “Is keeping a marine aquarium morally right? Is it ethically correct? Is it something we can […]Jon Gordon says:
Please sign this to support common sense rules in Florida. Ask Fish and Wildlife not to use an ill-advised whitelist of animals that can be kept. All you need to do is add your name to the following statement, "A viable option I support would be a list of prohibited species, which would be a much smaller, manageable and enforceable list than one that attempts to encompass all allowed species. " https://petadvocacy.org/advocacy-campaigns?vvsrc=%2FPetitions%2F3902%2FRespondBryce David says:
To whom it may concern, A whitelist approach to regulating which species are legally allowed to be obtained and traded will decimate fish farms and pet stores. This is not a well thought out approach for combating invasive species release into ecosystems. Best Management Practices have already made inroads on preventing the release of foreign invader species. I suggest a review of those practices and amend them if they are deemed to be insufficient. Sincerely, Bryce DavidEdward Moats says:
I urge you to consider the ramifications of losing a 172 million dollar industry in your state. I completely support the black list and agree that invasive species is a big concern. However , I feel that this bill is over reaching and will have a negative impact not only On the industry , but to Florida’s economy.