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Field Trips: Grades 9-12

Program Descriptions

Classroom Program: Technology in Shark Research                                                                                                                         Students will learn how scientists are using everyday technology in innovative ways to study sharks by becoming shark biologists, and analyzing real data from the field.


50 minutes15-30 students/class1 chaperone free : 5 students ratio$12/student

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Laboratory Program: Turtle Tech                                                                                                                                                                   Learn how Mote's Stranding Investigation program uses technology to track sea turtles from their nesting beaches out to sea and back again.

75 minutes 15-30 students/class1 chaperone free : 5 students ratio  $14/student

Laboratory Program: Marine Biology: CSI                                                                                                                                             Students will work together in small groups with a mystery skeleton to determine through observation and experimentation the identity of the animal. Through this process participants will uncover the adaptations, biology, and osteology of their mystery animal.


50 minutes 15-30 students/class1 chaperone free : 5 students ratio  $14/student

Field Program: Field Sampling Techniques Find out what to wear and bring                                                                              Discover what lives in the seagrass beds and sand flats of Sarasota Bay as we collect marine animals with dip nets, seine nets, and core samplers.

90 minutes15-30 students/class1 chaperone free : 5 students ratio$17/student

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