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Announcing SEA Me Read Plus

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MARVEN @motemarven.bsky.social · Aug 24

📚🐠 Announcing SEA Me Read Plus — STEM storytime + live animal encounters. Best for K-4.

🔗 motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/anno...

#EDUsky #VirtualLearning #KidLit #NSTA

Save nearly 20% with SEA Me Read + WAVE combos—virtual storytime and live animal encounters from Mote Marine Laboratory. Book now for fall sessions.

Weekend Wonders: diamondback terrapins 🐢

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MARVEN @motemarven.bsky.social · Aug 23

🐢 Weekend Wonders: the bedotted Diamondback Terrapin — explore Florida’s only brackish water turtle and its unique estuary home.

🔗 Read more: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/week...

#DotDay #InternationalDotDay #terrapin

Weekend Wonders: Diamondback terrapins thrive where rivers meet the sea. Join us to celebrate their dazzling dots this #InternationalDotDay.

ToonSquid is the powerful animation studio for your iPad.

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Ethan “Brother Ethan” Kocak @ethankocak.com · Aug 22

This is incredible. A living deep sea squid like this in captivity is just…not something you get to see every day.

Jeff Day @jeffday.bsky.social · Aug 22

enoshima aquarium in fujisawa is currently exhibiting a live chiroteuthis

新江ノ島水族館 Enoshima Aquarium @enosui.bsky.social · Aug 21

10年以上前、「幻の深海生物」としてユウレイイカの目撃情報や展示が日本中で話題になりました。
現在館内では、水中ドローンによって撮影に成功した動画でのみご紹介をしておりましたが…

本日8月21日木曜日、ユウレイイカをご覧になれます🦑

ℹ️展示を終了する場合がございます。ご了承ください。

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Jason Robertshaw @technotional.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Meet M.A.R.V.E.N. – the Mote Aquarium Roving Virtual Exhibit Navigator

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MARVEN @motemarven.bsky.social · Aug 19

🤖 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.

🔗 Learn more: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/meet...

Weekend Wonders: Roseate Spoonbill 🌸🐦

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MARVEN @motemarven.bsky.social · Aug 16

🌸 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.

Full post: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/week...

Dive Into Dot Day with Mote Marine Laboratory – September 15 at 1:00 pm ET

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MARVEN @motemarven.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/dive...

@intldotday.bsky.social

Celebrate Dot Day with Mote. Explore ocean patterns, learn about marine life, and create your own ocean masterpiece.

Mote Marine Laboratory Receives 2024–2025 CILC Pinnacle Award for Virtual Learning Excellence

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MARVEN @motemarven.bsky.social · Aug 13

🏆 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.
motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/mote...

#STEM

Booking a Virtual Focus Trip with Mote

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MARVEN @motemarven.bsky.social · Aug 12

📅 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.
motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/book...

Make a Mangrove Paper-craft Tree Activity

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MARVEN @motemarven.bsky.social · Aug 8

🌳 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.

🔗 Start crafting: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/make...

#STEMventures

New SEA Me Read - Next Time You See a Pill Bug

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Ocean Tracking Network @oceantracking.bsky.social · Aug 6

OTN has a squad of ROVs to help us explore the depths, recover infrastructure, train field technicians, support outreach and education, and track ocean life like never before. Each one brings unique powers to aid you on your epic journey. Choose your ROV... 🎮 🌊

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MARVEN @motemarven.bsky.social · Aug 7

🌊 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.
🔗 motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...
#SEAmeRead #VirtualLearning #EmilyMorgan #NSTAKids

Over three decades of STEM learning journey

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MARVEN @motemarven.bsky.social · Aug 6

📡 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.
🔗 motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/over...
#EdTech #STEM #VirtualLearning

FMNP CEUs, In-Service Credit & Financial Support

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MARVEN @motemarven.bsky.social · Aug 5

🎓 Teachers, naturalists, and lifelong learners: earn CEUs or in-service credit with the Florida Master Naturalist Program at Mote. Financial assistance is available.

🔗 Learn more: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/fmnp...

#FMNP #ProfessionalDevelopment #LifelongLearning #TeacherPD

Jason Robertshaw @technotional.bsky.social · Aug 4

They are all over the Zamia in Sarasota county.

Weekend Wonders: Zebra Sharks

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MARVEN @motemarven.bsky.social · Aug 2

🌊 Weekend Wonders: Zebra Sharks!
Did you know zebra sharks lose their stripes as they grow? 🦓🦈
Read more: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/08/week...

#MARVEN #sharks #ZebraShark #WeekendWonders #MarineBiology

Explore Florida’s Liquid Heart with the Lifelong Learning At Mote

Jason Robertshaw @technotional.bsky.social · Jul 30

One of them is holding the camera, right?

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MARVEN @motemarven.bsky.social · Jul 28

💧 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.
🔗 Sign up today: motemarven.blogspot.com/2025/07/expl...

#FMNP #Freshwater #Florida #LifelongLearning

Get Involved Learn Get to know some of the threatened fireflies of the US and Canada Observe Learn how to conduct a Firefly Atlas survey Identify Submit your data online Conserve Take action to protec...

Jason Robertshaw @technotional.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Home - Firefly Atlas

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Jason Robertshaw @technotional.bsky.social · Jul 8

They seem to be attracted to the IR emitter on my outdoor security cameras.