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Self-Guided Exploration Guides
Our suite of Self-Guided Exploration Guides provides students with fun and educational activities at the Aquarium. We've categorized these by grade level, but choose the one that will work best for your students!
The guides are available in PDF format (
download the acrobat reader
).
K-2
Jelly Jam
(Spanish)
Super Stars!
(Spanish)
(preliterate students)
Fin-tastic Fishes!
(Spanish)
(preliterate students)
Hide and Seek in the Sea
(Spanish)
(preliterate students)
Habitat Comparisons
(Spanish)
(chaperones to use with their groups)
Shapes, Sizes and the Sea
(Spanish)
(chaperones to use with their groups)
Shark Sleuths
(preliterate students)
Feathered Friends
(Spanish)
(preliterate students)
Stick or
Swim?
(preliterate students)
See Shells
(Spanish)
(preliterate students)
Open Sea Search
(preliterate students)
3-5
Jelly Jam
(Spanish)
Super Stars!
(Spanish)
Fin-tastic Fishes!
(Spanish)
Hide and Seek in the Sea
(Spanish)
What's on the Menu?
(Spanish)
Adaptation Sensations
(Spanish)
Shark Sleuths
Feathered Friends
(Spanish)
Stick or Swim
(Spanish)
See Shells
(Spanish)
Open Sea Search
6-8
A Journey with Jellies
In the "Zone"
Surviving on the Shore
9-12
Conservation Connections
The Open Sea