{"id":734,"date":"2016-05-27T14:19:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biooutreach\/?p=734"},"modified":"2016-05-27T14:19:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:19:28","slug":"school-visit-seaside-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/2016\/05\/27\/school-visit-seaside-science\/","title":{"rendered":"School visit: seaside science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/05\/P1120785.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-735\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-735\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/05\/P1120785-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"P1120785\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-id=\"735\"><\/a>The P4\/5 class from Coaltown of Balgonie primary school came to explore the wildlife of the East Sands rock pools with Dr David Ferrier.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">Buckets were rapidly filled with whelks, winkles, hermit and shore crabs, along with several bright red sea anemones. Other finds included keelworms, scale worms, a blue-rayed limpet and several fish, including a butterfish, several shannies and some young pollock.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/05\/P1120758.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-736\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-736\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/05\/P1120758-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"P1120758\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-id=\"736\"><\/a>Back in the lab of the Gatty Marine Laboratory everyone got a chance to hold starfish, poke sea anemones and get a closer look at mussels and barnacles, as well as testing the strength of empty limpet shells\u2026 they needed to be jumped on before they broke!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There are many more pictures of this visit on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=1183724005006234&amp;id=241626572549320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>School of Biology&nbsp;Facebook<\/strong><\/a> page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/05\/IMG_9494.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-738\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-738\" src=\"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/05\/IMG_9494-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9494\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-id=\"738\"><\/a>Any school groups wishing to arrange a similar activity can contact Dr David Ferrier at <a href=\"mailto:dekf@st-andrews.ac.uk\"><span class=\"s2\">dekf@st-andrews.ac.uk<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk\/biooutreach\/seaside-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More about &#8216;Seaside Science&#8230;&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The P4\/5 class from Coaltown of Balgonie primary school came to explore the wildlife of the East Sands rock pools with Dr David Ferrier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-schools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/05\/IMG_9494.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biology.st-andrews.ac.uk\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}