We’re busier than ever in 2025 as we visit Pre-K and elementary grade classrooms throughout the Fresno/Clovis metropolitan area as well as surrounding communities in the San Joaquin Valley with our ever-popular Teaching Tidepools® program. Seeing the student’s faces as they interact with our two educators and the tidepool animals …
Category: Educational Programs
2025 CART Salmon Team
The Fresno and Clovis high school Salmon Team students we mentor at CART (center for Advanced Research and Technology) spent a day on the San Joaquin River releasing the baby Chinook salmon they hatched out and grew in their classroom aquarium. Through this program, students learn what it takes …
2025 CART Saltwater Aquarium Team
The Fresno and Clovis high school students we mentor at the Center for Advanced Research and Technology (CART) are keeping a saltwater coral reef aquarium in their classroom and learning positive, cutting-edge techniques for land-based coral spawning with the goal of selecting for more resilient individuals to increase genetic diversity in the wild. Also, by …
2024 CART Trout Team
Spring 2024 – Fresno and Clovis high school students at the Center for Advanced Research and Technology’s environmental lab (CART) who are mentored by Aquarius Aquarium Institute released baby rainbow trout they raised from eggs in their classroom aquariums into the Kings River, just below Pine Flat Dam. By regularly testing the water in the …
Birthday Parties
We often post about our Teaching Tidepools® program that brings living California sea creatures to local school classrooms, but we’re also excited when we can reach children in their own homes at birthday parties! Contact us today to find out how you can have cool tide pool animals along with our fun, interactive program come to …
2022 CART Students Release Trout Raised in Their Classroom into Kings River
The 2022 CART high school students we mentor released their baby trout into the Kings River today! Read more and see the slides…
Teaching Tidepools 2021 – 2022
This current school year is going strong for our educational outreach programs!
CART Students Excited About Raising Salmon
Charter Members of Aquarius Aquarium Institute make all our current programs possible. The students we mentor at the Center for Advanced Research & Technology (CART)…
Our Educational Outreach Continues All Summer
Aquarius Aquarium Institute’s California tide pool animals make the rounds visiting numerous summer programs throughout Fresno, Clovis and many of our under-served rural communities. Our engaging educational outreach focuses on our aquatic world and instills a sense of responsibility in the students we reach with our conservation message. Of course we are always looking forward …
Students Thank You for Your Support!
Becoming a Charter Member means you are not only helping to build the Fresno Aquarium, but also supporting our educational outreach programs going on now.