Five days of Doing Science: Day Three - Field Trips

A good way to do science is by doing field trips.  These can be as simple as a guided nature tour through the local park, learning about rocks/rock formations as you learn to climb a rock face, or going to the zoo.  I've done a variety of science/nature based field trips with my son.

Today I am going to talk about one we did recently at Ripley's Aquarium in Toronto. 

Boy did we have fun.

We saw all kinds of interesting critters that live in the waters around Canada.

Do you see the baby shark developing in the egg sac? Pretty cool eh? we got to see them wiggling around at various stages of growth. Sharks will lay eggs even if they are not fertilized.

It took me a long time to get a picture of this bonnet head shark. It kept swimming away at the last moment. Sharks are in CONSTANT motion and they are much faster than you'd think they would be.

This puffer fish made me laugh he kept "photo bombing" me.   I was trying to take a pic of my lad inside the aquarium and he kept getting in the way.  We learned that he was intrigued by the camera cap.  He was quite a determined little fellow.

They had a variety of aquariums set up all over the place, just massive tanks of water.  Seeing the seaweed exhibit and the movement of the waves made me laugh with how the fish didn't move and yet they would go up and down with the movement of the waves.   One fish was quite determined to borrow into the seaweed to little avail. 

check out this massive saw fish. I never knew the "teeth" on it would break off. Neat to see one up close. One of the smaller sharks in the tank had teeth marks on him... .made us wonder if he got in a fight with one of the bigger sharks.

One part of the tunnel they keep dark for the night fish. I thought this orange one just beautiful. They list the different types of fish on the side of the walk way but I can't recall what this one was.

Of course going on field trips is much more fun when you go with friends.  :)   One of my son's friends pretending he is drowning......

two boys being silly.... clowning around for the camera

can we get it to work? Hey! This is fun discovering how canals work and the lad remembered this was an incline plain. :)

The horseshoe crabs grabbed the interest of N and A here. The little ones are males and they follow the females around in the hopes they will crawl on a beach and start laying eggs....

Here's a bit of a slide show of some of the things we saw.

All in all it was an excellent day out.  I'm so glad we could go as part of a group.  Makes it quite affordable then for us to get in.  

My son got to experience sleeping in a hotel as well as riding the subway.  Both new experiences for him.  He loved being able to swim in the pool with his dad.    

I kinda wonder.... where will we go next????

There are a whole bunch of us writing for this blog hop and I invite you to check them out.  Here are 8 to get you started.  :)
Nicole @ Journey to Excellence ~ Missouri
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Jennifer @ Royal Little Lambs ~ Essential Oils
Jen @ Happy Little Homemaker ~ Frugal Fitness
Meg @ Adventures with Jude ~ Homeschooling from the Kitchen
Lori @ At Home: where life happens ~ Favorite Books
Tauna @ Proverbial Homemaker ~ A Christ-Centered Home

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