CURB Mini Lessons & Activities
Video Series: Meet the Animals
Take a virtual trip into CURB's aquarium to meet and learn about the various fish and turtles found in the Hudson River. Check out our YouTube page for more:
- Meet the Turtles
- Meet the Fish: American Eel
- Meet the Animals: Blue Crab
- Meet the Fish: Hogchoker
- Meet the Fish: Skilletfish
- Meet the Fish: Atlantic Sturgeon
From Eels to Estuaries: Virtual Learning with CURB
Join Sarah Lawrence College student Elle Aversa as she presents various environmentally-themed lessons, experiments, and crafts.
- Storm Surge Lesson and Experiment
- Ocean Acidification Lesson and Experiment
- Sturgeon in the Hudson Lesson and Craft
- Oysters with Shell Identification and Anatomy
- Recycling and Repurposing Lesson and Craft
Additional Activities & Lessons
- Hudson River Estuary Watershed Demo
- Watch a video and answer questions about the movement of water in estuaries and watersheds. Student Worksheet, Teacher Answer Key
- Pollution Solution Machines
- Challenge students to invent and design a process for cleaning up water pollutants.
- Estuary in your Kitchen
- An experiment using water and salt to understand how different stretches of the Hudson River react to freezing temperatures.
- Food Web Activity using Food Web Cards
- Discover how energy transfers throughout an ecosystem and predator/prey relationships of common Hudson River Estuary creatures.
- Research on the Hudson
- An introduction to Hudson River data analysis provided by CURB's River Ecology Specialist. Visit our research page to access full data sets students can analyze in the classroom.