Our first transatlantic class took place last week with Humber Elementary School in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada when I spoke to 60 students from Ms Salyzyn's, Ms Bugden's and Mr Bradbury's Grade 6 classes about Ireland's Marine life and fisheries through Skype The talk, which had been organised by Ms Janice Vaughen, a past employee of Galway Atlantaquaria was part of the students fisheries projects for social science.
The students have been researching the relationship between community and fisheries and we were delighted to be able to take part. Hopefully we will get to talk to them again in the future.
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| Students from Humber Elementary School, Newfoundland. |
The Explorers Group was also spreading the marine message in Ireland over the last month, taking part in the Big Day Out in Dublin for St. Patrick's Day and Galway Bay Hotel's Easter Carnival in aid of Galway Autism Partnership
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| The visitors starting coming to say hello to the fish before the event even started |
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| Padraic tackles the Explorers Stand |
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| Full steam ahead for the little Nobby boat |
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| We were glad we were inside though. |
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| Finn at the Galway Bay Hotel |
Students at our Explorers Easter Workshops at the aquarium got to try out what will hopefully be our next Explorers Lesson Plan and visit the seashore in the snow!
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| Flying Squid ready to launch |
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| Everyone enjoying some hot chocolate after a seashore safari in the snow! |
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| Some of our beautiful octopuses |
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| Exploring life under the micros |
And finally, myself and Dr. Grace Windsor from the Marine Institute have been working on recording some information about Exploring the Seashore and I've been trying to get some good photos of the tides at Gratten Beach
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| Low Tide at Gratten Beach |
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| High Tide at Gratten Beach |
