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Watershed and Salmonid Teaching Resources

♦ Watershed Steward's Project's Real Science Education Handbook

Submit your own watershed related lesson plan or activity using this FORM.

 

 ~Lesson Plans & Activities~

Blue Beads Watershed Activity!

Musical Fish Chairs: A Life Cycle and Habitat Activity

Salmon Run Energetics (Math) Activity (teacher wkst)

Salmon Run Energetics (Math) Activity (student wkst)

Only the Strong Survive Energetics Activity

Habitat Survival Game (cross between Sniffin'Salmon, Hooks & Ladders)

 

 

 

 

~Powerpoints & Videos~

Salmonid Life Cycle & Habitat PP#1 (50 slides & Script)

Salmonid Life Cycle & Habitat PP #2

Lifecycle PowerPoint (10 great slides)

Farmed Salmon PP

Restoration PP

Habitat PowerPoint

Macroinvertebrate PowerPoint

Northern California Plants PP

Watershed Basics (shortened version of Wonders of Water)

Wonders of Water

Mapping, Watersheds & Topos

Energy Flow Through an Ecosystem (from Mary Poarch)

Salmon Jeopardy!

Video Clip: Weaver Creek Spawning

Video Clip: Coho Spawning

 

~ Supplemental Materials ~

     

     Watershed Puppet Show Puppet Templates

     Topo Maps

     Life Cycle Stage Photos/Digital Images

     Anatomy_Info_Display_Sheets

     Hooks & Ladder Token Questions #1

     Hooks & Ladders Token Quetions #2

 

~ Other Watershed Related Curriculum Resources ~

Pick up your tweezers and Dissect a Virtual Salmon!

Step by Step Salmon Dissection how-to with Pictures

SalmonPage.com 

SRF's Watershed and Salmon Education Links 

Aqua Pura: Exploring Salmon and Steelhead in CA Communities from the University of California, 4-H Cooperative Ext. and CA DFG

Reaches to Beaches Watershed Education Program: Natural Resource Services of the RCAA and CA DFG  

Save the Bay's San Francisco Watershed Curriculum

 

Interested in Raising Salmon in your Classroom? Click here for more information.

Salmon Sculpture Artist: Mimi Matsuda