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Boston Marine Biology

Massachusetts with its close proximity to the Atlantic Ocean and miles and miles of beautiful beaches and seacoasts is the ideal place to for your science students to learn about marine biology.

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This Travel Adventures science adventure begins in Boston! Here your science students will tour the Science Museum and the New England Aquarium. Next they will explore the nearby Cape Cod seashore and learn about marine biology during an oceanography cruise.

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Highlights

Boston Duck Tours

This 80 minute tour gives you an informative and unique look at the city of Boston. All of the Duck Boat "Captains" are entertaining characters that provide their own humorous insights as well as providing an extensive amount of historical and cultural information. The tour consists of 60 minutes on land and 20 minutes in water on an authentic World War II amphibious vehicle.

Cape Cod National Seashore

Student groups can explore the unique national seashore of Cape Cod Island and its rich cultural heritage. Take a whale watch cruise, a dune buggy ride or just enjoy a walk on the beach.

Museum of Science

Exhibit halls, butterfly garden, IMAX, planetarium, labs.
Take part in this unique opportunity to participate in a DNA Fingerprinting Lab. Or listen to a live presentation on "The Real Adventures of Spider Man" where you learn the scientific processes to develop a real suit that can climb anything! You can also meet the animals that serve as the inspiration for creating the suit! These are just a few of the many workshops and presentations you can do to help bring science to life!

New Bedford Whaling Museum

This is the largest museum in America devoted to the history of the American whaling industry and its greatest port.

New England Aquarium

This aquarium displays more than 2,000 fish and aquatic animals. Rising from the center of the building is a four-story, circular glass tank containing a re-created coral reef with more than 180,000 gallons of water and hundreds of tropical fish and marine life, including sharks, turtles and moray eels. A colony of penguins is on the ground level.

Marine Science Center at Northeastern University

North Eastern University offers a hands-on oceanography cruise, as well as a tide pool walk and center tour. K-12 students are able to explore and survey classic New England rocky intertidal habitats located just meters outside lab facilities. Extended investigations of intertidal habitats and organisms are also available using lab facilities.

Plimoth Plantation

Plimoth Plantation re-creates actual life during the immigration of the Pilgrims to the New World. Their lives, experiences, and concerns, along with those of the Wampanoag Indians on whose land they settled, are brought to life through character re-enactments at Plimoth Plantation. The Mayflower II is a reproduction of the ship that brought a small group of English colonists, popularly known as the "Pilgrims," to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.

Plymouth Rock

See the place where the Pilgrims first set foot on the Americas in December, 1620. The rock is protected by a granite portico.

Quincy Market

Quincy Market reflects its New England origins with its classic granite facade. This renovated 19th-century complex contains more than 125 restaurants, boutiques, produce stands, and retail pushcarts.

Sand Dune Tour

Imagine dunes stretching as far as you can see with wispy beach grass, dark green pine trees and deep red beach plums nestled in hollows, which are brought together by a silhouette of blue sky. You will travel along the shoreline where your guide points out the "dune shacks" where famous artists and writers like Eugene O'Neill and Harry Kemp became inspired to create their art.

Whale Watching Cruise

A naturalist accompanies every cruise to serving as an interpretive guide to the ecology and natural history of Cape Cod and Massachusetts Bays with emphasis on whales, other marine life and Dolphins that the passengers are likely to see.

WHOI : Ocean Science Center

Visit the Ocean Science Exhibit Center and catch a glimpse of the research happening at the Oceanographic Institution.

Woods Hole Science Aquarium

Visit approximately 140 species of marine animals found in Northeast during a self-guided tour of the exhibits and a behind-the-scenes look into the daily operations of the Woods Hole Science Aquarium.