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Katelyn B Jaiden F

A Day At The Aquarium!

On the first day of school, Mrs. Spotted Dolphin announced to her fifth grade class that they were going to take a field trip to a saltwater aquarium. There her class would learn about symbiotic relationships.

The next day the class was on their way to the saltwater aquarium. When they got their Mrs. Spotted Dolphin said, “Get ready to learn lots and make sure you don’t get lost and stick with your buddy!”

Here we go class on our way into the saltwater aquarium. First we will learn about mutualism, said the teacher. “Oh no! It’s a shark!” shouted Nemo. Then Mrs. Spotted Dolphin’s class started screaming. “No its ok class he can’t hurt you, he’s locked up in the aquarium.” said the teacher.

Class look at him again, here in the exhibit there is a pilotfish and a black nose shark. The pilotfish is cleaning the parasites off of the black nose shark. So that the pilotfish would get a free meal and the shark would be clean of parasites. “Okay class time to move on know we will learn about parasitism. In the next exhibit you will see a parasite called Fibrocapsa japonica, which is growing on a sharp jaw fish. The parasite in the bonefish eats the food that the bonefish takes in", said the teacher, and the class dropped there jaws and said,” Wow! That’s cool!”



Okay class lets move on to learn about Commensalism. In this exhibit there is a Fin Whale with barnacles attached to it. The barnacles get free transportation from the whale. The whale does not care that the barnacles are on it. “That’s awesome, I wish I was a barnacle” said Mrs. Spotted Dolphins class. “Alright, alright, lets move on before you really do turn into a barnacle", said the teacher. In the last exhibit we will move on to the predator/pray relationship. "Here in this exhibit, there is a Black nose shark eating the sharp jaw bonefish", said the teacher, and all the girls in Mrs. Spotted Dolphin’s class said “Eww” and all of the boys said, “Cool”. After that they left the exhibit to return to school. The class couldn’t wait to learn more about symbiotic relationships.

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