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“Is a sea cucumber a vegetable?” “What makes a blobfish blobby?” “Why do some things in the ocean glow?” “Are mermaids real or just pretend?” Aquatic Adventures will delve into children’s curiosities about ocean life by embarking on an imaginative underwater journey!
This week, we will cool off from the summer heat by “diving in” to explore each of the five zones in the ocean. We will begin by transforming ourselves into a team of divers, complete with scuba diving uniforms and handmade equipment (diving team emblems, air tanks, flippers, and more!). Day 1 will include ‘Scuba Diving Training Camp’, learning about the equipment, safety procedures, communication, and jobs/adventures you can have as a diver. Children will be paired with diving buddies for each dive, making discoveries as a team.
We will spend the week embarking on missions to the Sunlight, Twilight, Midnight, Abyss, and Trench zones. Each day will take us deeper - from just below the surface, filled with colorful characters, to the slimy, dark depths of the bottom of the sea. Together we discover the incredible inhabitants that live in each layer of the ocean through a combination of art, science, social, and sensory experiences. Children will also choose a creature of interest to create a wearable costume. Costume creations will blend each child’s creative vision with learned information about what makes each creature unique. These creations will celebrate the beauty and diversity of ocean life, and allow each child to feel totally immersed in the ocean experience.
Highlights include (but are not limited to): Diving Training Camp and obstacle course, designing scuba self-portraits, creating a coral reef, discovering the magic of bioluminescence, making slimy blobfish, squishing our way through the gooey trench, creating sea plant sculptures, exploring echolocation, searching for Megalodon fossils, transforming ourselves into ocean creatures, and much more! In addition, we will create diving logs to record details from each of our diving missions.
