Charleston, SC

This week we loaded up the charter buses and took off to Charleston, SC where we visited the USS Yorktown, a WWII aircraft carrier and now floating museum!  We also stopped by the South Carolina Aquarium to look at the different regions of our state and the wildlife found there.

At the Yorktown we got to go on a guided tour of the ship and got an idea of the part the men of the Yorktown played in World War II.  We also had a science lesson focusing on the Charleston bay ecosystem.

Learn more at: http://www.patriotspoint.org/explore_museum/uss_yorktown/

We are here!

The Yorktown

Science lesson on the floating lab.

Estuary Demonstration.

Examining a whelk in the marine life room.

Testing salinity with a hydrometer.

Looking a plankton live in our ocean water sample.

Bunks where sailors slept.

On the flight deck.

In a plane!

Lunch in the galley.

At the aquarium students went on self-guided scavenger hunts discovering the ecosystems and wildlife found in the various regions of our state.  Learn more at : http://scaquarium.org/default.aspx

Feeding shrimp to stingrays!

The touch tank!

Fish feeding show.

 Friends we met at the aquarium...

What was your favorite part?