By Florida Catholic staff - Florida Catholic
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St. Brendan Elementary students used their nets to scrape the seabed and find sea creatures at the Biscayne Harbor Nature Center and Virginia Key.
MIAMI | St. Brendan Elementary students saw seagrass by the seashore during a hands-on learning adventure at the end of April.
Students in the school's St. Thomas Aquinas enrichment program and Junior Honor Society visited Biscayne Harbor Nature Center and Virginia Key. They learned about the need to preserve the ocean’s seagrass beds and set off on their own adventure in the water.
Walking just offshore, they used their nets to scrape the seabed to find a variety of sea creatures, including sea horses, starfish, crabs, pea fish, sea urchin, and much more.
"Our students sat along the beach and studied the creatures followed by a release back into the ocean so that they could continue to grow in our ecosystems," said Maria Tavarez, director of the St. Thomas Aquinas program. "What a better way to learn than in the environment itself.”
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Sitting by the seashore, St. Brendan Elementary students learned about the need to preserve the ocean's seagrass beds.
