Classroom Visit with Pompano Beach Public Library

Overview

On July 30th, 2025, The International SeaKeepers Society hosted a classroom visit with thirteen students and four educators and chaperones at Pompano Beach Public Library. Our Educational Outreach Manager, Jack, and our Community Engagement Manager, Lillian, started off the lesson by introducing SeaKeepers and leading an interactive presentation on the major coastal habitats of South Florida. In this presentation, we focused on four major habitats: mangroves, coral reefs, seagrass beds, and kelp forests, nearly all of which play vital ecosystem services for native Floridians and require our protection. Students had the chance to share their knowledge on key ecological concepts such as biodiversity, trophic flow through food chains, and even exploring some of the threats that affect each ecosystem. Following the presentation, we jumped right into an activity where our students could model one of our ecosystems using an agamograph. These simple crafts are a way to illustrate a cause and effect or before and after model in a single piece of art, which in the case of our activity meant our students showing a healthy ecosystem versus a polluted one. Our students proved to be both natural artists and ecologists, modeling a wide range of ecosystems and animals through their agamographs. We give a huge thank you to the hardworking students as well as the team of Pompano Beach Public Library, and we look forward to working with them again soon!