Flour Bluff Intermediate Oceans Club A hands-on elective in environmental science that gives students an overview of the marine environment and relationships within it and teaches students how to collect, identify and classifty marine life, but also to provide students an opportunity to compare/contrast body structures of animals in relation to function, classification, and adaptation. ACCOMPLISHMENTS OVER THE YEARS... Students monitored water quality. Students, parents, and local agencies built a model of a wetland. Many students get their first-ever boat ride on field trip. Increased aptitude in science with past ocean students. Winner of the GLO Environmental Challenge Grant in 1997. 6 years as Master Teacher for the teaching Environmental Sciences. Overview... Students spend the first four weeks of this semester-long class learning the basics of physical and chemical oceanography (waves, tides, water chemistry). After an orientation, students go out seining every other Friday during class time. Technique and proper handling of specimens is emphasized. Students explore animal structure and function through dissections and observing live specimens. We begin with the simplest animals and work up to marine mammals. Dive In... Have fun setting up, caring for, and maintaining some of the 17 tanks in the classroom Learn how to use and maintain field equipment like a refractometer, coring tool, discovery scope, secchi disk, and compass. Learn how to use chemical field tests for dissolved oxygen, pH, and dissolved nutrients. Discover careers in U.S. fisheries and their management.

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