Schools Groups

Schools workshops: experience and amazement

The Grand Aquarium school workshops make easier your contact with animals.
Ideal conditions to understand the life of these underwater species.

Booking: +33(0)2 99 21 19 07
( from monday to friday: 9.00/12.00 and 14.00/18.00)

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Free previsit for teachers
Dear teachers, discover ou teaching tools and prepare your visit with a guide.
Free previsit. Booking necessary: +33(0)2 99 21 19 00

Miss dogfish’s fishing net
- Nursery School (2/3 years old )
- 10/20 pupils
- workshop duration : 30 min + unguided visit

Miss Dogfish caught in her fishing net 4 animals. They are all very peculiar. We are trying to recognize them. This workshop is a real sensory and memory discovery.

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Fishing business
- Primary school (4/6 years old)
- 15/30 pupils
- workshop duration: 45 min + unguided visit

Through a sensory workshop, children can touch and feed animals, but also taste seaweeds to understand their role in the food chain. This workshop is a way to learn to make the difference between animals and plants.

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Crab Pot Cottage
- Primary school (4/10 years old), Secondary School
- 15/30 pupils
- workshop duration: 2 hours (guided visit included)

From clues, this workshop is a way to develop organisation and working sessions in groups. Pupils touch, look and discuss to know the various species of the sea world...

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Caution ! Sea in danger
- Primary school (4/10 years old)
- 15/30 pupils
- workshop duration: 1hour + unguided visit

From experiences and concrete information, pupils think about reasons and consequences of marine pollution and overfishing. They also study the impacts on animals and environment.

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Save the sharks
- Primary school (4/10 years old), Secondary School
- 15/30 pupils
- Workshop duration: 1hour + unguided visit

Locomotion, reproduction, nutrition are the subjects of this workshop. Children can touch rays and sharks in the touch pool to become real scientific apprentices. They will learn how to collect rays’ eggs on the beach to protect animal species.

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Plankton or not plankton?
- Primary school (7/10 years old), Secondary School
- 15/30 pupils
- workshop duration: 2 hours (guided visit included)

Discover the importance of the marine biodiversity through the scientific expedition " Tara Oceans ". By using this expedition, children are going to discover the food chaine and the impacts of the food chain on biodiversity, thanks to various experiences.

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The fish jumped over the moon
- Primary school (4/10 years old), Secondary School
- 15/30 pupils
- Workshop duration: 1hour + unguided visit

Through this workshop, pupils become actors and transform themselves into stars to simply explain the tides’ phenomenon. They are then lead to understand how animals adapt themselves thanks to simulators.

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Sea wonders
- Secondary school
- 15/30 pupils
- workshop duration: 2 hours (guided visit included)

This workshop is a way to show how species adapt themselves to their environment. As they grow, they learn how to eat, to protect themselves against predators. Notions of imitation, territoriality, symbiosis will be approached. A summary will be made around the touch pool.

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All aboard!
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Primary school (4/10 years old), Secondary School
- 15/30 pupils
- workshop duration: 1hour + unguided visit

To become sailors, children discover the secret of the marine knots and learn important notions of navigation such as port and starboard, cardinal buoys... Then, they go fishing around the tactile pool to know the animals of our coasts. A sailor license is given to each pupil at the end.

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Job: biologist 
- Secondary School (15 / 17 yrs old)
- 15/30 pupils
- workshop duration: 2h

Trough an interactive guided tour of the aquarium, students discover the sea mysteries and the deep. Behind the scenes, all the secrets of the aquariologist's job will be revealed. The various training connected to the jobs linking with the marine field will be approached.

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