Programs and Classes

• Family Programs
• Members-Only
• Meet the Animals
• Summer Programs

• Teen Programs
• Overnight Visits
• Community Outreach
• Aquarium Lecture Series

For Teachers

• Field Trips
• Classroom Resources
• School Programs
• Teacher Discounts and Benefits

• Teacher Resource Center
• Professional Development
• Connect with Other Teachers

Fun and Games

• Blogs, Webcams, Videos and More
• Fun Activity Ideas
• For Kids and Parents
• Online Games

Turn your students into penguins! Aquarium educators will teach children how to act like penguins and how to collect and analyze data like scientists. In addition to learning about penguin behavior, students will discover the variety of penguin species found at the New England Aquarium and throughout the Southern Hemisphere. Program can take place at the Aquarium or at your school or community center.

• Offered for grades 1-5
• Offered as a classroom program
• Offered as an Explorer Class for Aquarium field trips

This program was developed in collaboration with TERC to meet National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards.

Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks (as a guideline)

• All levels: Skills of inquiry; number sense and operation; patterns, relations and algebra; measurement; data analysis; statistics and probability
• Grades 1-2: Characteristics of living things; living things and their environment
• Grades 3-5: Characteristics of plants and animals; adaptations of living things; energy and living things; structures and functions; patterns, relations and algebra