Westhampton Beach Elementary School Students Learn About Local Waterways

Westhampton Beach Elementary School students recently learned about local waterways and their inhabitants through Cornell Cooperative Extension’s discovery fish tank program.

Through the program, each participating classroom receives a salt-water fish tank full of sea creatures that the students can observe and monitor on a daily basis.

The students helped to set up their fish tanks with the help of Stacy Myers, a marine youth educator with Cornell Cooperative Extension.

During the set up process, students were able to touch and learn more about each critter as they were placed into the tank.

Tank inhabitants include sea urchins, muscles, spider crabs, killifish, hermit and mud crabs and oysters.

All of the creatures will be released into the area bay in the beginning of June.

“This is a great opportunity for students, who really look forward to learning about the creatures that they will be swimming with this summer,” Tara Hudson, a local kindergarten teacher said.

Photo courtesy of the Westhampton Beach School District

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