The Education Center was established at the Gdynia Aquarium in 1998 to promote knowledge of the sea. From then on, students from the Tri-City and surrounding areas and school groups from all over Poland have taken part in many projects. Our main goal is to familiarize as many young people as possible with current issues related to biology, ecology and protection of the marine environment. Participants learn about the world of the sea through the senses of touch, sight, hearing and practical experiences.
For educational purposes, we also use the exhibition of our zoo located at the coast of the Gulf of Gdansk. This amazing location and character of the institution gives the opportunity to show organisms associated with the ecosystem of the Baltic Sea environment, as well as aquatic fauna, coming from almost all over the world.
Multimedia presentations
| 45 min. | Kindergarten | Primary school |
High school |
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| Age group | 4-5 years | 6 years | Class 1-4 | Class 5-6 | Class 7-8 | Class 1-4 |
| Biodiversity of the Bay of Puck | ||||||
| Animals of the Gdynia Aquarium | ||||||
| Mysteries of Amazon | ||||||
| Great Barrier Reef | ||||||
| Arctic and Antarctic | ||||||
| Dangerous marine animals | ||||||
| Amazing marine animals | ||||||
| Waste – will only trash be left of us? | ||||||
| Earth - planet of the seas | ||||||
| Our Baltic Sea | ||||||
| Senses of fish | ||||||
| Mysterious world of the deep | ||||||
| Reproduction of marine animals | ||||||
| Basics of the marine ecology | ||||||
| Baltic - the Europe's trash can |
Laboratory
| 60 min. | Kindergarten | Primary school |
High school |
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| Age group | 4-5 years | 6 years | Class 1-4 | Class 5-6 | Class 7-8 | Class 1-4 |
| Expedition to the ocean floor | ||||||
| Coral cove creatures | ||||||
| Meeting with the Baltic Sea | ||||||
| ABC of the Baltic Ecologist | ||||||
| Echinoderms | ||||||
| Fauna and Flora of the Baltic | ||||||
| Shark encounters | ||||||
| Marine invertebrates | ||||||
| Stony corals | ||||||
| Water chemistry - analytical laboratory | ||||||
| Microscopic world of water bodies | ||||||
| Geology of the Baltic Sea | ||||||
| Fish anatomy, or fish from the inside | ||||||
| Mysteries of the water drop |
Field & laboratory classes
| Kindergarten | Primary school |
High school |
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| Age group | 4-5 years | 6 years | Class 1-4 | Class 5-6 | Class 7-8 | Class 1-4 |
| Meeting with the Baltic Sea | ||||||
| Birds of the Polish coast | ||||||
| Baltic fauna and flora - field activities | ||||||
| Water chemistry |