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Dream Stream

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Investigate the parts of a healthy stream to build content-specific vocabulary and ecological awareness. The class builds vocabulary and determines why clean water is important for trout. They design a shoe box to show what a clean...
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Trout Are Made of Trees Crayon Mural

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize that for a trout habitat to be ideal, several components must be present.  In this trout activity, students explore what makes a healthy stream.  Students create paintings for a mural of a trout habitat. Students...
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Once I Was a Baby Trout

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students sing a song about the trout life cycle. In this trout life cycle lesson plan, students learn trout vocabulary and make motions while singing this song.
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Trout In The Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars have trout in their classroom and complete journaling, checklists, temperature checking, and ammonia level recording. In this trout lesson plan, take weekly observation records of their trout.
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Trout Cookies

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore the external anatomy of a fish. In this anatomy and adaptations instructional activity, students look at an image of a trout and identify its various external features including fins, eyes, spots, parr marks and lateral...
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What Trout Need

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the important components for a healthy trout habitat. In this fish habitat lesson, students discuss how the aquarium will simulate a trout's environment in nature. Students complete a trout information sheet to set...
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Salmon in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list the salmon life cycle stages in order. They draw a stream with the vegetation, animals, and water quality parameters that are necessary for salmon survival. Students explain the connection between animal morphology and...
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The Journey of the Pacific Salmon

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students examine the journey of the Pacific salmon. In this salmon species lesson, students review the stages of the salmon life cycle and conduct an experiment to determine how the water and habitat changes during each stage.
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Ecosystem Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this ecosystem worksheet, students read descriptions and match the appropriate vocabulary term using ecosystem, habitat, community, and population. Students identify ten vocabulary terms.
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Mock Fly-Tying

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students make their own fly-fishing flies.  In this aquatic macroinvertebrates lesson, students look at images of different species of aquatic macroinvertebrates.  Students compare the similarities and differences among the species. ...
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Water Walk

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners conduct a visual survey to discover information about local land use and water quality; document their findings by mapping and profiling the water body; and use this initial investigation to raise questions about local land use.