But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

How Do Mussels Get Their Shells?

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: <a href="https://www.vpr.org/sites/vpr/files/202009/how_do_mussels_get_their_shells_.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PDF</a> | <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B6dDwz2y2ZBhXrrxZUbcZINIemgIxMeaEvPKMGkVC5o/copy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Slide</a> | <a href="http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/vpr/files/but_why-15-salty_sea-transcript.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Transcript</a> | <a href="http://siemensbottlingco.blogspot.com/2013/12/beginners-schooner.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ship In Bottle Plans</a>

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