About-Aquarium Tank Education

Welcome to the Touch-Tank site. Touch-Tank provides information about aquarium tank education

Aquariums Teach

Teaching aquariums are learning tools created by teachers for teachers to enhance aquatic exploration and are used by teachers and students in educational settings.

Teaching aquariums are hands-on learning tools that make learning about Eco-systems fun and engaging. Hands-on learning and teaching aquariums specifically have proven learning results. By recreating the marine environment in a aquarium tank, students experience the beauty and magic of the earth’s Eco-systems and discover the complexity of the symbiotic relationships that ensure the earth’s environmental balance. Students are encouraged to explore and experience the wonders of nature as it relates to the subjects that they are studying in school.

Teaching aquariums provide healthy living conditions for the sea life that naturally dwell in the shallow waters of ponds, lakes, rivers, and oceans allowing students to learn how animals survive in their natural habitat.

Touch-Tank offers the following information, found on the website:

1. You will find a list of locations that use teaching aquariums to enhance science education including actual stories about teachers and teaching aquarium users that explain how and why teaching aquariums improve science knowledge and retention.

2. You will find suggestions on ways to fund a teaching aquarium tank  project including grants and fund-raising ideas.

3. You will find information about Touch Tanks For Kids, a 501 c 3 nonprofit dedicated to improving science education by helping educators acquire a teaching aquarium tank. Touch Tanks for Kids offers funding support including grants for educators who use their teaching aquariums in support of the Touch Tanks for Kids Mission.

4. You will find information about students, teachers and programs that are searching for money to fund a teaching aquarium tank project. There are several worthy schools and educational centers that need your help, Donate NOW

5.You will find teaching tips and suggestions

Students learn a vast amount of information when they observe the behaviors and actions of an Eco-system that they are actually reading about in textbooks. The aquarium tank information discussed on Touch-Tank includes powerful ways to enhance education in any setting.

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