Children always have the option of learning from their textbooks and other resources such as storybooks, magazines, comics, and of course the Internet.
Children always have the option of learning from their textbooks and other resources such as storybooks,
magazines, comics, and of course the Internet. However, we do not give them real life experiences and it doesn't matter how much detail has been put in those storybooks or the Internet, a child will never be able to feel the same as when he or she confronts such a situation in real life. Hence, it becomes vital for parents or school to take their children on field trips that give them hands-on learning experience, which can make an everlasting impression in their memory.
Rather than just reading about fruits and vegetables, children can make a visit to the farm and get to know how it feels to touch those vegetables, what type of soil is needed, the amount of water it consumes and the actual size of the vegetable. While visiting a farm might be reasonably easy, it becomes extremely difficult to show children live sharks, crabs, octopus, lobsters, shrimps, pearls, stingrays and piranhas, because we can’t just put on a diving suit and dive into the deepest ocean to experience such beautiful creatures.
This undeniably brings the focus on aquariums, and unlike other aquariums Sea Life gives you state-of-the-art sights and experiences which you may never encounter or even have dreamt of encountering. Sea life accommodates more than thousand creatures in over 2 million liters of water, and have 500 different species collected from every part of the world which includes some of the rarest species that you have ever known.
That's not all, Sea life make it a point to engage children in the company of these fishes by getting close to them and feeding them (of course with the help of professional guides). There is a lot of difference between seeing a shark on Discovery Channel and actually looking at it face to face, and letting it feed from your hands. Isn't that one hell of an experience?
That's right, Sea life has more than 40 different species of sharks including the hammerhead which known to be near its extension. Moreover, they have given 14 different themes to the entire place that helps children go through a fascinating experience and encounter some of the rarest species from the underworld.
By confronting such fishes as well as different creatures from the marine life, children would get a hands-on experience on their habitats, cycle, environments, conservation and different types of fish species. Getting them up, close and personal with such mesmerizing species of the underwater life will register more knowledge in their brains and will help them to know better on how to deal with such fishes.
Sea Life comes up periodically with fascinating packages for school trips that allow children access to the back rooms where they prepare food for the fishes and take care of them. This area is generally closed to the public, but Sea Life goes to the extent of giving children the closest experience they can get to a shark or even a giant octopus.
Sea Life’s intention with giving children such hands-on learning experience is to help them be self-sufficient when they need to deal with such fishes in their future. Every School should encourage such field trips, because these trips can give children experiences which they would otherwise miss out generally.
