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AquaVan visits Grand Forks

May 12th, 2012 10 Images
Grade 5 Dr. DA Perley Elementary students got the full Vancouver Aquarium AquaVan experience touching animals and unusual artifacts like shark's teeth shown here. Photo Erin Perkins.
Students used just their pinky fingers to touch a sea star because that finger is the most gentle and most sensitive. Photo Erin Perkins.
Before breaking into groups, students gathered to talk about marine life on the Pacific Coast and how their actions can impact that delicate ecosystem. Photo Erin Perkins.
Students touch the tips of a prickly sea urchin that Sarah Evans, education lead for the AquaVan tour, showed them. Photo Erin Perkins.
Sarah Evans, education lead for the AquaVan tour, used live animals, puppets and pictures to tell students interesting things about the lives of marine life. Here she is showing how sea stars eject their stomachs to eat their prey. Photo Erin Perkins.
A barnacle hides from the students in one of the many portable tanks the marine animals are transported in during the tour. Photo Erin Perkins
Up close and personal with a Puget Sound King Crab. Photo Erin Perkins.
The Puget Sound King Crab was likely the show stopper of the morning. He was made even more memorable by being named after a transformer -- Optimus Prime. Photo Erin Perkins
A sea star gets a soft touch from Marcus Perkins during the AquaVan tour. Photo Erin Perkins.
Every station had a surprise. Here students wait with anticipation while an educator brings out a sea star for them to touch. Photo Erin Perkins.

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