Lessons by the Sea are offered by Primorsky Aquarium
A new Lesson By the Sea project is ready to start on January 12. School students and their teachers are invited to change their classrooms for field trips to explore Primorsky Aquarium exhibits.
The Lesson By the Sea is the updated version of the Lesson at the Aquarium project, in which more than 15 thousand children took part.
The project offers programs in biology, geography and English for students of elementary and secondary school. Special entertaining guided tours await preschool children.
“These programs in fact are not classical lessons, with students sitting at their desks and listening to a teacher,” – tells Platon Ostashkin, Senior Specialist of the Education Department. “The project is intended to make learning interesting and entertaining. During each program children switch between activities: they look, read and play, getting both new information and vivid impressions.”
Aquarium educators have prepared 14 programs, some of which have already been conducted and are rather popular among teachers and students. Besides, there are several new ones.
“This year we’ve added a “Sea of Japan Treasures” lesson for English language learners in the exhibit of the same name. Students will get to know English names for ‘Russian’ marine inhabitants.” – Platon Ostashkin notes. “Hands-on encounters with marine organisms in our touch pool – of course, strictly following animal-visitor interaction rules – that’s what makes the lesson really special. Tactile contact always arouses deep emotions!”
A new “Systematics with Emphasis on Fish” program in the Tropical Rain Forest and Tropical Seas exhibits will help students understand taxonomic ranks through lively examples.
The Lesson By the Sea project offers more comfortable timetable as compared to Lesson at the Aquarium one. The participants may now choose between Wednesday and Friday and come at 10 or 11 a.m., 1, 2, or 3 p.m.
The price (150 roubles) includes an interactive lesson and worksheets for each student. Programs for elementary school children last for 45 minutes and for high school students, 90 minutes.