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‘Homeschool at Sea’ Week 2: “A Sea of Senses”
Looking for interactive classes to add to your homeschool curriculum this year? Join Sanibel Sea School for an immersive program that brings marine science to life for homeschoolers!
The Homeschool at Sea program offers an experiential, hands-on approach to learning about Southwest Florida’s coastal ecosystems. Homeschool sessions include a mix of classroom activities, field excursions, experiments, and art projects. For each age group, both morning and afternoon options are available. Courses run from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM or 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Students can sign up for a morning session, an afternoon session, or stay for the whole day. Each week, we offer a unique area of focus. Our talented marine science educators tailor our core curriculum to the week’s focus, so each session is unique, even on the same day. You can find more information on each week 1’s focus below.
Focus of the Week: Marine Animal Sensory Systems
Description: At Sanibel Sea School, we encourage our students to use all of their senses when experiencing nature – holding a snail and letting it leave a trail of slime on our hands, smelling sand and algae, listening for snapping shrimp beneath the sea, watching osprey dive to catch fish, and even tasting the salt of black mangrove leaves. We’re focusing on the five senses this week: how do marine animals use their senses? Do they all have the same as us? Do sensory systems function the same in water? The experiments and activities will test what happens when a sense is removed & help us to experience the outdoors specifically with that sense. We’ll highlight creatures who have heightened and even extra senses, too. This week is going to be sensational!
