Listen "How Do Mussels Get Their Shells?"
Episode Synopsis
We're heading to the coast of Maine to learn a little bit about why the sea is salty and how mussels get their shells with Zach Whitener, a research associate at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine.
We also get an answer to a question to how you get a ship in a bottle from Colorado-based ship-in-bottle builder Daniel Siemens in this encore episode from 2016.
Download our learning guides: PDF | Google Slide | Transcript | Ship In Bottle Plans
We also get an answer to a question to how you get a ship in a bottle from Colorado-based ship-in-bottle builder Daniel Siemens in this encore episode from 2016.
Download our learning guides: PDF | Google Slide | Transcript | Ship In Bottle Plans
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