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Illinois Teachers Get in Free Even if you have visited before, it is often helpful to "take in the scenery" minus a group, allowing you time to discover for yourself the treasures to share with your students. Take advantage of free admission by bringing your Illinois teacher identification. Store Discount Are you looking for materials for your classroom? Puppets, videos, teacher guides, animal models, books and software are all available in our two retail stores, Go Overboard! and Big Blue. Remember to present your school I.D. for your 20 percent educator's discount. Focus the Trip Set a realistic goal for what you would like your students gain from the trip. Umbrella topics (camouflage, adaptations, etc.) greatly aid in focusing students' attention. Use the activity guides available with your confirmation, or create your own tailored to your students' needs. Prepare Students Your trip will have more meaning for your students if it reinforces ideas introduced in the classroom. Seeing these ideas exhibited up close and personal will help learning come alive. Prepare Your Chaperones Chaperones can't help reach the goals set for the visit if they don't know what they are. If you plan to use the Aquarium Adventures, feel free to photocopy enough for each chaperone. Good to Know.. Admission for a self-guided Oceanarium visit includes both the Aquarium and Oceanarium. The time of your reservation is your entrance time into the Oceanarium, it does not indicate the start time of the dolphin presentation. Reservations for an Aquarium-only visit do not include visiting the Oceanarium (where the dolphins and whales are located). Coat-check facilities are not available for self-guided groups. Lunch facilities may be available for self-guided groups. Reservations for the lunchroom must be made when you make your self-guided visit reservation. All programs and times are subject to availability; associated fees are nonrefundable and not transferable. Updates In May 1999, Shedd Aquarium unveiled its renovated interactive Caribbean Reef. The new exhibit includes an interpretive station, large-scale video monitors and an underwater video camera. There are five daily dive presentations. In the summer of 2000, Shedd unveiled its newest exhibit, Amazon Rising: Seasons of the River. This attraction shows the yearly cycle of the flood season that the Amazon River experiences. It also examines how animals, as well as the residents of the Amazon Basin, adapt to these changing conditions. Amazon Rising features interactive stations, and unique scenes that give visitors a sense of what Amazon living is really like! As part of our exciting future at Shedd, we are creating exhibits that all ages can enjoy. Our next project is a Philippines exhibit, expected to open in 2003. |
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