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Resources, by Annie, on January 28, 2010
Georgia Aquarium, photo by Sandwiches of the Dead
Parents Magazine printed a list of their top ten U.S. aquariums for kids. I’ve been to the New England Aquarium, number 4, and it’s pretty great, so the others must be great too. Their websites are pretty fun for kids too, so I put in their links.
1. Monterey Bay Aquarium (Monterey, CA)
2. Georgia Aquarium (Atlanta, GA)
3. John G. Shedd Aquarium (Chicago, OH)
4. New England Aquarium (Boston, MA)
5. Florida Aquarium (Tampa Bay, FL)
6. Aquarium of the Pacific (Long Beach, CA)
7. Atlantis Marine World (Riverhead, NY)
8. Oregon Coast Aquarium (Newport, OR)
9. SeaWorld Adventure Parks
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Fish in the News, by Annie, on January 27, 2010
photo by Franklin Samir Dattein
In a December 2009 study, published in Animal Cognition, a group of researchers gave five stingrays a problem solving task. They put food in a plastic tube and challenged the stingrays to extract it. All five stingrays were able to extract the food by shooting water through the plastic tube. The researchers put a visual trick in the test, and only one stingray was able to figure it out before extracting his food. The other four successfully got their meals on the second try.
This is helpful to understand how other vertebrates understand things. According to
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Resources, by Gudrun, on January 26, 2010
Photo by: Captain-tucker
The next phase of Annie’s Blog is officially launched. May we present the first article in a series of helpful dispatches for teachers and parents interested in broadening their child’s understanding of the subjects covered in this website. The resources category will include fun activities, online and community based educational opportunities, games, and more. Please subscribe or check back often to keep in touch.
This will soon be a complete list of government run fish and wildlife programs that offer activities for teachers and kids of all ages. There are curriculum guides, educators training programs, web-activities for kids,
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Things You Can Do, by Annie, on January 25, 2010
Jane Goodall is a scientist who spent the better part of her life studying chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, which is a chimpanzee habitat not far from where Gam lives and studies her fish. In 1991, Jane Goodall founded the Roots & Shoots program with a group of 16 Tanzanian students, and it has been a great opportunity for kids to get involved ever since.
Roots & Shoots is a project based program for kids to learn about issues in their local communities and work to make them better. The projects are focused on helping people, animals, and nature. There’s a
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Comic, by Gudrun, on January 25, 2010
Read the FOURTH page of The Lake Bound Adventures of Chinku and Jabari, and keep coming back for more, every Sunday night at midnight in France, a new page will be posted for your viewing pleasure. If you’re on the east coast of the USA, that means at 6 pm, if you’re on the west coast, that’s 3 pm. Or just use it to distract yourself Monday morning when you get back to work.
Research, by Annie, on January 22, 2010
My parents have strange taste in music. When Dad is metal-smithing, he likes to listen to everything from Queensryche (a hair band from the 80s) to Bach Cantatas. I guess it just depends on his mood. My Mom is the same way, she listens to Bob Dylan, Italian opera, and occasionally I’ll catch her bopping her head to Snoop Dogg. It’s so weird when that happens.
So it’s normal that I enjoy listening to all kinds of music, and in my preparation for The Big Trip to Tanzania, I learned there is a style of hip hop music that’s native to
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Fish in the News, by Annie, on January 20, 2010
by Broken Sphere
In 2006, Dr. Richmond Loh, an Australian veterinarian said that fish could be trained to push levers to get their food, and their memory for that behavior lasted as much as three months.
In 2008, a 15-year-old kid in Australia tested the famed 3 second memory span of a goldfish by feeding a few test subjects next to a red Lego. After a while, the fish started to wait by the Lego for their food, and even if he took the Lego out of the tank and put it back in, they remembered that it was where the
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Things You Can Do, by Annie, on January 19, 2010
Image by Hackshaven
This is a design contest open to 8-14 year old kids. Design a flag that represents ocean exploration and the protection of ocean ecosystems, then write an essay that describes your design, under 250 words (that’s like a page, double spaced). Then mail it to National Geographic in Washington D.C., the postmark on your entry must be no later than February 20, 2010. The winning design will become a real flag on the National Geographic Ocean Now expedition ship. The winner will also receive a patch of their design, and an assortment of National Geographic books and
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