Marine Education Center
Miss Peetsy B Bayou Tours
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Education on the Water! 
The Miss Peetsy B Bayou Tour is a three hour program and includes hands-on experiences in our floating classrooms, waterfront classrooms and laboratories.
Tours are offered as a field trips for schools and community groups. The program consists of two 90-minute periods of instruction, one on the water and the other in the classroom.
Grades K -12 or Adult Groups | $30/participant
Minimum group size - 25 | School groups must include one adult teacher per ten students.
Book your trip today! Contact us at 228.818.8095 or marine.educationFREEMississippi.
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What will we do the first 90 minutes?
- Tour of marsh habitat
- Collection and identification of marsh organisms by trawling
- Discussion of impacts of development on coastal environment
- Identification of coastal birds
- Discussion of MS Sound: Deer Island, Barrier Islands and estuaries
You choose your next 90 minutes!
Collection of water samples
Lesson on plankton
Identification of plankton using microscopes
Perform water quality test
Lesson on internal/external anatomy of sharks
Discover the seven senses of sharks
Guided dissection to educate about respiratory, circulatory and digestive systems
of sharks
Add $10 per participant dissection fee.
Gulf Coast Feature
Hands-on experience in floating classrooms.
About Miss Peetsy B
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Miss Peetsy B was donated to 麻豆传媒色情片鈥檚 Marine Education Center by Jimmy Buffett and his sisters, Lucy Buffett and Laurie Buffett-McGuane, in honor of their mother who was passionate about education. The vessel's name comes from Mrs. Buffett's nickname - Peetsy B. The Buffett family, originally from Pascagoula, donated the vessel to help educate students about their coastal environment, and ultimately create a more informed citizenry to protect and maintain our local marine habitats.
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