Fish Fun at Deasy School

Submitted by Glen Cove School District

First-grade students at Deasy School in Glen Cove learned about the anatomy of fish during the Long Island Children’s Museum outreach program, “Fish Tales.”

As part of the program, Long Island Children Museum’s Outreach Manager Stacey Lee took students on an “imaginary fishing trip,” where they caught a fish and dissected it, all while learning about the comparative anatomy between fish and humans. After the dissection, the children examined the parts of the fish with a magnify glass, while Lee cooked the fish for students to eat.

First grade teacher Wendy Romanoff said the program tied into the student’s “Snails to Whales” curriculum.

“We began the year talking about snails, then moved to the properties of water,” Romanoff said. “This program will launch us into our unit on fish, where we will have aquariums set up in the classrooms so the students can study them.”

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First-grade students from Deasy School examined the parts of a fish during the “Fish Tales” program.

Long Island Children Museum’s Outreach Manager Stacey Lee opened the mouth of a striped bass to allow students to view it’s teeth

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