Come for the films, stay to see the fish! Presented by the Children's Film Festival Seattle! This animated short films block is family friendly for kiddos of all ages. This event is part of the 2022 Poulsbo Film Festival weekend and is being kindly donated to us thanks the partnership with CFFS director Kendra Ann […]
Saturday, February 29, 2020 – The Microcosmos Spend an evening focusing on the small things in life. Build and use your own portable, pocket-sized, reusable paper microscope to explore with and take home. Explore the world of what we can’t see including tiny marine plankton. Test your engineering skills to build and race the ideal […]
Just like the plains of Africa, the marine world has its own circle of life! Starting with the smallest plants and animals in the ocean, students in grades K-2 (plus guardians) learn what marine animals eat and how they are connected in a giant food web.
Students in grades 6-8 are invited to come discover how medical professionals use imaging techniques to see what the inside of a human body really looks like. Look through a model person yourself to make your own discoveries!
The characters in our favorite stories have lots of problems! What if we could help by creating solutions for them? Participants in grades K-5 develop their problem solving and engineering skills as we read a story and work together to design and build devices or processes to fix the problems the characters encounter.
It is a magical time of year when we can see the salmon swimming home to lay their eggs and start the next generation! Students in grades K-2 (plus guardians) are invited on a journey through the life of a salmon and discover the many ways they are important to our ecosystem. Then walk/drive up […]
Enjoy a well-deserved date night while your kids have a fun-filled evening through Kids Night Out @ Western (KNOW). Students in grades K-5 will explore hands-on, inquiry-based science and end the evening with a movie, guided tour of the aquarium or arts activities. Join the fun! Become a nature detective and use your powers of […]
Enjoy a well-deserved date night while your kids have a fun-filled evening through Kids Night Out @ Western (KNOW). Students in grades K-5 will explore hands-on, inquiry-based science and end the evening with a movie, guided tour of the aquarium or arts activities. Join the fun! Water is beautiful and powerful and EVERYWHERE. Discover how […]
Ever notice how different organisms seem to dominate different zones in the intertidal? What's behind this zonation, and why is it so clear in some places and less so in others? We'll explore the answers to these questions as well as what they can tell us about how intertidal communities might respond to changing conditions.
Whether you find it squirm-inducing or inspiring, the extreme intimacy of symbiosis (which to biologists includes parasitism as well as mutualism) is pretty darn incredible. Come learn about cool symbioses, some right here in our own Puget Sound.
Discover what mysteries of Liberty Bay our interns have been studying, and find out what they've learned.
The plays that brought the sea into the homes of the world.
Depictions of the sea in art and advertising. Visions of wonder and enchantment in aesthetic representations of a mysterious world and its effects on human thought and feeling.
For marine organisms, every day can seem like a struggle. Someone's always trying to eat you, push you off of your prime piece of real estate, or steal all the food before you get any. But cunning self-defense tactics give every community player a fighting chance.
How the self defense mechanisms of sea life give bearings to the world of modern science.
An alarming amount of recreational and commercial fishing pots and nets are lost in Puget Sound each year. This derelict fishing gear may continue to "ghost fish" for decades, capturing and killing marine organisms with no one to harvest them and degrading critical marine habitat. Learn more about the problems and solutions of derelict fishing […]