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	Check out these COOL Activities and Upcoming Events!
Activities -Sea World Good Vibrations -Dolphin Quest Sounds in the Sea	Sea World Activity - Good Vibrations (Grades 4 - 8) Why is this girl giggling? Did she hear something funny? Click here to open the PDF file of the activity.
	Dolphin Quest Activity - Sounds in the Sea (Grades K - 5 ) Sound is important to many animals in the ocean, including whales and dolphins. This fun activity builds on this concept. Click here to open the PDF file of the activity. More lesson plans can be found on the Dolphin Quest Web site for both elementary and secondary grade levels. Visit the Learning Quest section at http://www.dolphinquest.org/learningquest. The lesson plans are available in the Teaching Quest section.
	Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events -Monterey Bay National Sanctuary Symposium -2005 West Coast LiMPETS Teacher Workshop -Snorkeling trip to Belize -SeaWorld Resident Camps Offer Interactive Learning Environment	Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Symposium Sanctuary Currents '05; "Tracking the Health of Our Sanctuary" Saturday March 12, 2005, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. California State University Monterey Bay The annual symposium is a free event, open to all, and will be held on Saturday March 12, 2005 on the campus of California State University Monterey Bay. This year's theme focuses on the health of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary with presentations by local scientists, volunteer citizen monitoring groups, students and policy makers. Abstracts will be accepted for the contributed poster session until Friday January 21, 2005. For more information or to submit an abstract please visit http://www.mbnms-simon.org/symposium.php.
	2005 West Coast LiMPETS Teacher Workshop Are you interested in learning about rocky intertidal and sandy beach monitoring techniques? Would you like to set up a field monitoring site with your students? If so, we invite you to apply for the 2005 West Coast LiMPETS Teacher Workshop hosted by the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary at El Capitan Canyon outside of Santa Barbara, CA. The three-day workshop (March 3-6, 2005) will include: * An introduction to rocky intertidal and sandy beach monitoring techniques with invited expert speakers * A field trip to a sandy beach site to collect data * A cruise to Anacapa Island to a rocky intertidal site to collect data * Instruction for entering data into online databases * Guidance for setting up your own marine monitoring program with your students The workshop registration fee includes materials, bunk style lodging at El Capitan Canyon with meals, boat trip to the Channel Islands, substitute money and local transportation to monitoring sites. Visit http://limpets.noaa.gov/projectInformation/introduction/welcome.html for more information and a downloadable application.
	Snorkeling trip to Belize Dr. Dale Ingmanson, San Diego State University Emeritus, will take a group to Belize snorkeling to study the barrier reef and related habitats July 6-16, 2005. The cost is $990 plus airfare but includes all room, board(meals), and boat. For further information, contact Dr. Ingmanson at ingmanso@mail.sdsu.edu.
	SeaWorld Resident Camps Offer Interactive Learning Environment Student camps are an unbeatable complement to traditional classroom and laboratory instruction. And SeaWorld San Diego‘s interactive, hands-on style of educating campers can’t be replicated in any classroom! SeaWorld Resident Camps for groups are educational for students, easy for a leader to organize, and fun for everyone. Find out more at http://seaworld.org/adventure-camps/swc/resident/group/multi-night.htm.