Refuge’s WoW focuses on sea stars
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Harns Marsh Elementary kindergarteners practice counting the arms of a nine-armed sea star and compare it to the number of arms on the five-armed sea stars.
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J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge intern Ashley McGovern teaches a class about the dissection of a sea star at Harns Marsh Elementary.
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A Harns Marsh Elementary student points to the sea star's mouth.
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A student from Harns Marsh Elementary removes the stomach of a sea star to get to the ring canal.
The “Ding” Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge reported that the J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge’s Wildlife on Wheels conducted summer camp at Harns Marsh Elementary in Lehigh Acres last week. The team taught kindergarteners and first-graders about sea stars, while fourth- and fifth-graders had the opportunity to dissect one.
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- REFUGE/DDWS Harns Marsh Elementary kindergarteners practice counting the arms of a nine-armed sea star and compare it to the number of arms on the five-armed sea stars.
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- REFUGE/DDWS J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge intern Ashley McGovern teaches a class about the dissection of a sea star at Harns Marsh Elementary.
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- REFUGE/DDWS A Harns Marsh Elementary student points to the sea star’s mouth.
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- REFUGE/DDWS A student from Harns Marsh Elementary removes the stomach of a sea star to get to the ring canal.
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