The Amazon River basin is the largest basin in the world and it snakes through the Amazon Rainforest. Its biodiversity is extensive and we will […]
Ocean – Sea Turtle
Did you know that leatherback sea turtles eat only jellyfish? There are many different species of sea turtle and each has a specific diet. Some […]
Ocean – Shark
The ocean is full of big and small fish. In hot and humid areas Like Florida and Hawaii, we might see sharks. Sharks can vary […]
Ocean – Jellyfish
In the ocean, there are creatures without a brain, a backbone, that look like jelly and lived before the dinosaurs. What are they? Jellyfish, of […]
Ocean – Seahorse
In the ocean, there are only three male animals (pipe fish, sea dragons and seahorses) that carry the fertilized eggs in a pouch and hatch […]
Ocean – Octopus
The ocean is a vast body of water and covers 71 % of the earth. That is very big, indeed! It is composed of the […]
Chesapeake & Coastal Bay Life – Dolphins
Dolphins! Dolphins ahead! On our way back to the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center main building (Edgewater, Maryland), we all saw bottlenose dolphins and asked the […]
Chesapeake & Coastal Bay Life – Fish
What an adventure! We are still at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland. We discovered oysters, blue crabs and now, we are searching […]
Chesapeake & Coastal Bay Life – Crabs
What a gorgeous sunny and warm day on a boat on the Chesapeake Bay! We are still on our field trip at the Smithsonian Environmental […]
Chesapeake & Coastal Bay Life – Oysters
For our science field trip, parents and children all pretended driving to the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, and played lots of games […]