Let the Animals Come to You

What better way to continue your education and keep kids’ curiosity piqued than to adventure with Georgia Aquarium from afar?

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  • Get regular updates on our animals
  • Download lesson plans and resources
  • Learn about all the animals in our facility
  • And much, much more

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At home or in the classroom, our lesson plans will keep inquisitive minds going for hours. Download yours today.

School Programs at the Aquarium

Grades K-2

Grades K-2

  • Feature Fanatics – Students will match animals together by their physical features.
  • Penguin Life Stages – Students will identify and build the life stages for African penguins.
  • Walking into the Deep – Students will extend light visibility to the ocean zones and relate animals to their home zone in the ocean.

Grades 3-5

Grades 3-5

  • Conservation Badge – Students will research conservation efforts of organizations toward specific animals.Students will also study and choose to implement methods of conservation that they can do themselves.
  • Brook to Ocean – Students will create a model of a watershed and observe how watersheds contribute to an ecosystem. Students will also evaluate how pollution of any water source can affect an ecosystem.
  • Flowing Landscapes – Students will determine physical changes in a landscape caused by waterways and will analyze satellite imagery of a region.
  • Parts of a Food Chain – Students will conduct research to create a food chain from a specific environment. Students will also hypothesize what will happen if one element of their food chain is removed.

Grades 6-8

Grades 6-8

  • Filtration Sensation – Students will construct a device that has the ability to filter dirty water and distinguish important applications of water filtration.
  • Oil Spill Impacts – Students will analyze the effects of human impact UMEs on the cetacean population in the Gulf of Mexico. Students will also identify what a UME is and its lasting significance on the environment.
  • Current Convection – Students will produce an experiment demonstrating convection in water and test density levels.
  • Sounds of the Ocean – Students will analyze marine mammal spectrograms and will graph marine mammal sound frequencies.

Grades 9-12

Grades 9-12

  • Balancing the Ocean – Students will use stoichiometry to create a balanced equation.
  • Echinodermata vs Mollusca – Students will identify anatomical features of sea cucumbers and nudibranchs.
  • Ocean Acidification – Students will discover how increasing carbon dioxide amounts in the atmosphere impact acidification in the ocean. Students will also investigate the impacts that ocean acidification has on shell and skeleton building organisms.
  • Sustainable Seafood – Students will construct a menu that will help ensure fish populations for generations to come. Students will also analyze resource availability and cost of obtaining fish

Take An Aquarium Word Trip With Dictionary.com

To help you get into full teacher and tour-guide mode, we’ve teamed up with Dictionary.com to put together an educational language guide for you to reference as you’re exploring the aquarium with your kids.  Here is an example:

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Gill

Fish don’t breathe the same way that humans do. Fish have gills!

gill is the respiratory organ of aquatic animals that allows them to breathe the oxygen that is dissolved in the water. Water is forced past the fish’s gills, which contain a number of tiny blood vessels. Oxygen seeps into the fish’s blood through these tiny gills, and carbon dioxide seeps out.

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Review the rest of the words and phrases to help learners at every level get the best out of their virtual field trip experience at dictionary.com.

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