Marine Aquariums-Teachers Guide
How can educators use marine aquariums in educational settings to reach 
more students? Teachers involve your students starting with the fund-raising followed by the set-up and maintenance of your teaching aquarium. This will create a powerful first impression as you integrate the learning tool into daily your educational activities.
Teaching aquariums capture the attention and imagination of their audience and encourage development in reading, writing, math, geography, history, science, and critical thinking, while caring for live creatures inspires a sense of responsibility, achievement, and creates a desire to learn.
Marine aquariums create endless teaching possibilities, and the contributors of Touch-Tank provides educational support for all teaching aquarium enthusiast free of charge. Here are some resources to get you started:
Species Identification Resources
Ocean Organisms: Teachers Guide
Estuarine Science > All About Estuaries
Ocean and Environmental Science Information and Curriculum
Dr. Touch Tanks’ Ocean Guide supplies teachers with a versatile teaching resource that supports aquarium education.
“Children in particular need to be engaged in ocean, coastal and climate science and NOAA has produced a wide array of resources and programs for students and professional development training for educators. The online resources and field experiences described below are just a few of the opportunities offered by NOAA’s education programs.”
Here is a wonderful article on Ocean Literacy and link to the resources discussed above. More Ocean Literacy Resources
The executive director of an national origination that offers grants for marine touch tank aquariums said this:
Because of their size, depth, and diversity, the oceans remain mostly unexplored. Space exploration has reached beyond the galaxy, but humans are yet to understand the complexities of the oceans. Strange considering the oceans contain 97 % of the earth s free water, are home to around 400 million species, generate all catastrophic weather events, and absorb carbon dioxide. With the vital role water plays in life, our supports believe that we must learn more about our oceans and all other vital water sources.
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