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Mote Aquarium Roving Virtual Exhibit Navigator - virtual learning journeys for all ages, from PreK to gray. sites.google.com/mote.org/virtualfocustrips/connect

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#KidLit #ocean #VitaminSea
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Watch leadership lessons from terrapins, squid, and more. A conversation with Julie Henry and Sheyla Ravelo Perez
#YOCS #YouthOceanConservationSummit #WisdomFromTheWildForYouth
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Mote Marine Lab - Wisdom from the Wild for Youth
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November 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Wisdom from the Wild
November 5 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
FREE
Grow as a leader with Wisdom for the Wild. Take a walk on the wild side with leadership lessons from cheetahs, sea turtles, squid, and axolotls. mote.org/event/wildwi...
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Grow as a leader with Wisdom for the Wild. Take a walk on the wild side with leadership lessons from cheetahs, sea turtles, squid, and axolotls. Learn how nature’s wisdom …
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November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Fun facts, science, and surprises in this free Wonderful Animal Virtual Encounter. #JellyfishDay #MoteMarineLab #VirtualLearning
🗓️ 11/3 @ 1:00 PM ET
💻 Free virtual event
🔗 mote.org/event/jellyfish-day-jamboree
Jellyfish Day Jamboree | Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Take a virtual journey into the gelatinous world of jellyfish. Mote is home to several mesmerizing species and anywhere from 150 to 1,000 individuals. Discover how we feed so many …
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November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Dive into the gelatinous world of #jellyfish, the most mesmerizing movers in the sea. Fun facts, science, and surprises in this free Wonderful Animal Virtual Encounter. #JellyfishDay #MoteMarineLab #VirtualLearning
🗓️ 11/3 @ 1:00 PM ET
💻 Free virtual event
🔗 mote.org/event/jellyfish-day-jamboree
Jellyfish Day Jamboree | Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Take a virtual journey into the gelatinous world of jellyfish. Mote is home to several mesmerizing species and anywhere from 150 to 1,000 individuals. Discover how we feed so many …
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November 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Jellyfish Day Jamboree | Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Take a virtual journey into the gelatinous world of jellyfish. Mote is home to several mesmerizing species and anywhere from 150 to 1,000 individuals. Discover how we feed so many …
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October 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Have a tentacular time on #SeaSlugDay with #MoteMarineLab
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Shell-less-bration for #SeaSlugDay
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October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Join the shell-less-bration for World #SeaSlugDay tomorrow, 10/29 at 1pm ET mote.org/event/sea-sl... #Nudibranch #Nerd #SeaSlug #VirtualLearning #SeaMeRead #MoteMarine
October 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Dive into the gelatinous world of #jellyfish, the most mesmerizing movers in the sea. Fun facts, science, and surprises in this free Wonderful Animal Virtual Encounter. #JellyfishDay #MoteMarineLab #VirtualLearning
🗓️ 11/3 @ 1:00 PM ET
💻 Free virtual event
🔗 mote.org/event/jellyfish-day-jamboree
Illustration of two green jellyfish drifting above a wavy ocean floor with bubbles, seaweed, and a small starfish. A purple vertical banner on the left reads “VIRTUAL EVENTS,” and large green text at the top says “JELLYFISH DAY.” The overall style is soft and watercolor-like.
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Join us for a shell-less-bration of Sea Slug Day!
It’s a slime-time adventure for the spooky season—discover the secrets they secrete. 10/29 @ 1:00 pm Free mote.org/event/sea-sl... #SeaSlugDay #SEAmeRead #VirtualLearning #MoteMarineLab #CILC
Illustration featuring four colorful sea slugs—a purple, a brown, a blue with red and yellow, and a yellow with black spots—arranged on a light gray background. Along the left side, a purple vertical banner reads “VIRTUAL EVENTS.” At the bottom, bold, multicolored text says “SEA SLUG DAY.”
October 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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📚🐠 Announcing SEA Me Read Plus — STEM storytime + live animal encounters. Best for K-4.

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#EDUsky #VirtualLearning #KidLit #NSTA
Announcing SEA Me Read Plus
Save nearly 20% with SEA Me Read + WAVE combos—virtual storytime and live animal encounters from Mote Marine Laboratory. Book now for fall sessions.
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August 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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🐢 Weekend Wonders: the bedotted Diamondback Terrapin — explore Florida’s only brackish water turtle and its unique estuary home.

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#DotDay #InternationalDotDay #terrapin
Weekend Wonders: diamondback terrapins 🐢
Weekend Wonders: Diamondback terrapins thrive where rivers meet the sea. Join us to celebrate their dazzling dots this #InternationalDotDay.
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August 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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🤖 Meet M.A.R.V.E.N. — the Mote Aquarium Roving Virtual Exhibit Navigator. Our new livestreaming cart connects classrooms to marine science with real-time, behind-the-scenes access to the exhibits and animals at Mote.

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Meet M.A.R.V.E.N. – the Mote Aquarium Roving Virtual Exhibit Navigator
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August 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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🌸 Weekend Wonder: Meet the roseate spoonbill—one of Florida’s most striking wading birds. With its vivid pink feathers and unique spoon-shaped bill, this bird sweeps shallow waters to find food in a way few others can.

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Weekend Wonders: Roseate Spoonbill 🌸🐦
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August 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Celebrate #InternationalDotDay with Mote Marine Laboratory in a creative, interactive ocean-themed Virtual Focus Trip that blends art, science, imagination, and fishes.

🐠 Spots, dots, and sea life.
📅 Sept 15, 1 pm ET
🆓 FREE

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Dive Into Dot Day with Mote Marine Laboratory – September 15 at 1:00 pm ET
Celebrate Dot Day with Mote. Explore ocean patterns, learn about marine life, and create your own ocean masterpiece.
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August 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Has your school, library or community group signed up for #InternationalDotDay global celebration of creativity? Join over 32 million participants in 190+ countries! Free downloadable #DotDay guide w registration: www.internationaldotday.org @peterhreynolds.bsky.social @candlewickpress.bsky.social
International Dot Day | Celebrate Creativity Now
Join #InternationalDotDay - a global creative celebration, courage and community. Sign up to connect, create, and inspire with millions worldwide on September 15-ish - and share how you will use your ...
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August 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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🏆 Mote Marine Laboratory receives the prestigious 2024-2025 CILC.org Pinnacle Award for Virtual Learning Excellence. Our thanks to the teachers, students, and staff who made this honor possible.

📚 Celebrating 30 years of connecting classrooms together.
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#STEM
Mote Marine Laboratory Receives 2024–2025 CILC Pinnacle Award for Virtual Learning Excellence
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August 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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📅 Booking a Virtual Focus Trip with Mote is now easier than ever. We’ve added TidyCal.com integration for quick scheduling + payment. Now, only our available time slots are shown so you know exactly when to connect.
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Booking a Virtual Focus Trip with Mote
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August 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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The ocean never stops changing—and neither should you. 🌊
Explore Mote’s Endless Oceans Online: self-paced lessons, Florida ecosystems, marine careers & more.
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#OceanEducation #MoteMarine
Dive Deeper with Endless Oceans Online
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August 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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🌳 Mangroves aren’t just cool-looking—they’re coastal superheroes. Build your own model mangrove tree while learning how their tangled-rooted protect shorelines, trap sediment, and shelter wildlife.

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#STEMventures
Make a Mangrove Paper-craft Tree Activity
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August 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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🌊 New SEA Me Read: Next Time You See a Pill Bug
From land to sea, discover how pill bugs and their ocean cousins are connected.
Live virtual reading + live animal look for grades K–4.
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#SEAmeRead #VirtualLearning #EmilyMorgan #NSTAKids
New SEA Me Read - Next Time You See a Pill Bug
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August 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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📡 From shipwrecks to sharks, Mote has over 30 years of virtual learning journeys. It started all the way back in 1989—and we’ve been innovating ever since.
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#EdTech #STEM #VirtualLearning
Over three decades of STEM learning journey
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August 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🎓 Teachers, naturalists, and lifelong learners: earn CEUs or in-service credit with the Florida Master Naturalist Program at Mote. Financial assistance is available.

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#FMNP #ProfessionalDevelopment #LifelongLearning #TeacherPD
FMNP CEUs, In-Service Credit & Financial Support
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August 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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🌊 Weekend Wonders: Zebra Sharks!
Did you know zebra sharks lose their stripes as they grow? 🦓🦈
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#MARVEN #sharks #ZebraShark #WeekendWonders #MarineBiology
Weekend Wonders: Zebra Sharks
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August 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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❓🧠🌊 Ask The Ocean: Your Questions, Answered by Ocean Experts. Ever wonder how sharks sleep? What it takes to become a marine biologist? What it’s like to work at a world-class research lab? Now’s your chance to ask!
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A wooden table with a laptop at the center displaying a digital yellow submarine and question icons on its screen. Surrounding the laptop are summer items: a straw hat, sunglasses, a glass of water, a vintage camera, and a smartphone showing an underwater question mark. At the top, the text reads “SEA SCIENCE: ASK THE OCEAN” in bold. In the bottom right corner is the UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 icon labeled “Life Below Water.”
August 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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💧 Dive into Florida’s freshwater habitats this summer. Join us for an FMNP Freshwater Systems course and explore wetlands, wildlife, and water quality with expert-led field experiences.
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#FMNP #Freshwater #Florida #LifelongLearning
Explore Florida’s Liquid Heart with the Lifelong Learning At Mote
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July 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM