Norwalk Maritime Aquarium
Field Trip 2004
On
Thursday, October 28, 2004
, the 7th graders took a field trip to the Norwalk Maritime Aquarium.
This Aquarium
featured a variety of habitats stocked with more than 1,000 animals indigenous
to the Sound. Tanks portray
successive levels of life in the Sound, from tidal areas filled with oysters,
sea horses, and small fish to the 110,000-gallon open ocean tank with nine-foot
sharks, bluefish, striped bass, rays, and other creatures found in Long Island
Sound and the ocean beyond.
Some of the exhibits that the students viewed were the
River Otter habitat, Touch Tank, Open Ocean Tank, Jellyfish Encounter,
Loggerhead Sea Turtles, and Harbor Seal Feedings.
Last, but not least, the students experienced Forces of
Nature on the six-story-wide, eight-story-high IMAX movie screen.
To see a
slide show of the trip for Team 7A, please click here if you are using MS
Internet Explorer.
To
see pictures of the trip using Mozilla Firefox, please click here.
