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Students read a life cycle chart and gather information from the Internet to examine salmon life cycles. The class creates a chart showing habitat requirements at each life stage.
In this Scarlet Salmon activity, students watch the video Scarlet Salmon and answer fill in the blank and short answer questions about it. Students complete 41 questions about the video.
In this vocabulary acquisition worksheet, students help the salmon get up the fish ladder by writing in the missing letter to complete each word. Students use the word bank for help.
From fishing to forest fires, this lesson plan includes all kinds of scenarios for you to discuss with your ELD students. Three stories from Houghton-Mifflin ("Salmon Summer," "Wildfires," and "Skylark") help beginning, intermediate, and advanced pupils to practice their vocabulary and writing. Additionally, they practice making inferences and using adverbs and prepositions in simple and complex sentences.
Students go on a salmon scavenger hunt to find out about threats to salmon populations. They gather information about some of the reasons wild salmon have gone from such incredible abundance to relative scarcity, and about some of the things people are doing to help salmon recover. Also, they describe several ways in which human activities impact salmon at various points in their life cycle.
Students role-play a meeting of the Elwha River council in which they present opposing views to council members on hydroelectric power and salmon fisheries resources. They brainstorm possible conflicts between various people in land-use issues then watch a video on land use in the Sipsey Wilderness area and read about the Elwha river to compile their presentations.
Sixth graders see that salmon is an important resource to Alaskans. The commercial fishing of salmon is a major factor in Alaska's economy. They analyze a table of data which was obtained from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
Students study the Pacific salmon and see the different challenges they face. In this environment lesson students complete several activities that show how humans have affected the salmon environment. These activities have varying levels of detail and can be spread over more lessons if required.
Students study the conditions of salmon imprinting as the fish returns to spawn in its native waters. Scented cards are used to mimic the imprinting process as the student fishes search for and identify obstacles to reaching their native streams.
Sixth graders explore the importance of salmon and steelhead species for various cultures in California. They participate in a classroom festival of salmon, prepare and eat salmon recipes, listen to stories, view videos and listen to guest speakers.