2007 Kids Camp (Junior Open Water
Diver)
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Welcome to the HiTek
Scuba 2007 Kids Camp Junior Open Water Program.
Learning to SCUBA Dive isn't just about skills in
the pool, or putting together equipment. There is class room work to
do as well. During the students week long camp we also learned about
underwater aquatic life, ecology, and marine systems.
But it wasn't all lecture!
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The students got a chance to do some cool activities
as well. They learned about a very special, and cool artwork style as
well.
It's called
Gyotaku Fish Prints
Gyo = Fish; Taku
= Impression
Pronounced "GEE - OH - TAH - KOO"
"Gyotaku" is the ancient
Japanese folk art of painting fish. The first Gyotaku were created to
preserve the true record and size of species caught by Japanese anglers as
far back as 1862.
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All of the students got to create their very own fish
print to take home with them. This is something very unique that most
"regular" scuba students don't even know exists.
But that's the HiTek Scuba way. We go way
beyond the "standard".
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This student was very proud of his creation...as you
can see he added his own signature to the artwork, or was he just messy, I
guess we'll never know.
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Another class room activity that the students
participated in was a marine biology study of the different classes and
families of marine organisms. But just learning the names was not
enough. HiTek Scuba added the "hands on" vehicle of learning
by bringing in a huge number of actual specimens that students could touch,
study, and classify themselves.
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Here are all of the specimens after the students have
studied them. The activities included naming them, drawing them, and
figuring out what the different organism had in common, and what made them
different. This was a hands on approach to marine biology
classification techniques.
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The Students filled out data sheets and answered
questions about each classification. This was a full on science class
that went hand in hand with learning about our underwater realm. After
all that's really what scuba diving is all about.....isn't it?
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