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. Consult rates
	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. Consult rates
	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... Consult rates
	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. Consult rates
	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. Consult rates
	Cooking lessons - Primary school (7/10 years old), Secondary School - 15/30 pupils - workshop duration: 2 hours (guided visit included) From concrete information signs, pupils are supposed to recreate the food chain and observe links between the different parts of the chain. The guided visit will show the way to cook fishes and preserve the endangered animal species. Consult rates
	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. Consult rates
	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. Consult rates
	All aboard! - 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. Consult rates
	Behind the scenes - Primary school (7/10 years old), Secondary School - 15/30 pupils - workshop duration: 30 minutes + unguided visit Discover the daily job of an aquariologist by exchanging with him. From the water recycling area to the quarantine rooms, pupils will understand how the aquariologist watches over the health and security of animals. In partnership with “Tetra”, an instructive and playful set will be distributed to every pupil. Consult rates