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Virtual Tide Pools And Beyond [Introduction] [About our Project] [E-Mail] [What we found] [Activities] [Learning Results] [Resources] About Our Project The first grade classes at Jack Memorial have been learning about Tide Pools. We visited Kettle Cove in Cape Elizabeth, Maine where our teacher, Mrs McAlpin, went scuba diving and brought creatures to the shore for us to see and touch. Before our trip we had some different ideas of what we would find there. We took digital pictures with a Sony Mavica camera of the creatures. Then the pictures were cropped and resized with Graphic Converter on a Macintosh computer. We drew some pictures and scanned them with a Canon scanner. Mrs Gauley helped gather everything together to make web pages. She uses HTML code with SimpleText on a Mac. We also drew some pictures using a program called KidPix. We used the iMac in our classroom. Mrs Gauley exported them from KidPix so that they could be used on our web pages. ...