This spring we took all of the second grade students to Dubq. to see the National Mississippi River Museum& Aquarium (NMRM&A). We had to write a grant last summer in order for us to be able to take 75 students that far on buses. Normal district budgets won't allow you to take that big of a field trip. Obviously, because I am writing a post on this, we did get a grant for about 900 dollars. Most of this money was for busing costs and the rest was for student admissions.
It is not often that these students get the opportunity to make it outside of town, none the less see something as cool as the NMRM&A. There are a ton of cool habitats and fish to observe. I really recommend this place to anyone interested in this type of thing.
The students had a blast. Only four kids got car sick driving all that way on a bumpy bus. None of them threw up because I got them to the front of the bus so that they could watch the road in front of us. I at some point hope to get fifth grade to take a trip up to Eagle Bluff. I would switch places with the fifth grade teacher so that I could go with the students. We will see what the future brings. I just have to do it by 2012 right. :)
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Whew! For a minute, I thought your post was going to be about taking your students to a NMBLA conference.
What is that?
Did you notice that I rubbed out everyone's face and name tag?
You have to have permission from the parents to post photos, so I rub them all out so that you can just get the idea of how many and where we visiting.
After the trip to the NMBLA conference it'll be better if no one knows who they are.
What lives in the aquarium? Catfish?
They take you on a trip from Lake Itascca all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. On the way you will see habitats of the river and the creatures that live there. For example they have an eight foot alligator in the Bayou habitat, giant catfish from the main channel, and monster snapping turtles.
It is a diverse collection of fish, reptiles, and birds. They even have three river otters in an exhibit outside.
In addition to the outside, you can walk around a real dredging boat and see some river boat artifacts like boilers, propellers, and barges.
Still trying to figure out NMBLA.
Sounds very similar to the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth.
NMBLA: National Man-Boy Love Association
Also, the beginning of Underwater World at the MoM, at least as it was when I went through it in the 90's.
Yes it is similar to those types of places. I would say from my virtual tours of the Great Lakes Aquarium that the GLA is a step above when it comes to interactive displays.
Thanks for the meaning of NMBLA.
GLA: Big, kind of fancy, but a little underwhelming for all its immense size. Also quite depressing - it's all about invasive species, overfishing, overirrigation, and pollution. The great lakes of the world, for the most part, are nearly fucked.
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