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Attend a Teacher Workshop

Fish

• Teachers attend a one-day workshop in the fall to learn how to raise Chinook salmon with their students in their classroom, and release them into a nearby river in the fall. The Salmon in the Classroom program is the seemingly limitless subject matter that can easily cover benchmarks in mathematics, social studies, language and arts,...

Top ten reasons to be concerned

 

1. Children between the ages of 8 and 18 years spend an average of nearly 6.5 hours a day

 with electronic media - Rideout, V. and Hamel, E. (2006). The Media Family: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Their Parent. Kaiser Family Foundation. (Note: Remember this was published in 2006 think of...

Match a Leaf to the right tree A tree that hasn’t started to grow yet...a seed! Red Rocks Something BLUE A Feather Smell a Flower Something that makes NOISE! A sign that an animal has been here. A piece of litter A leaf with teeth Something YOU like A camouflaged animal or insect Something ROUND A cone from an evergreen   STOP!...

Name__________________ __________________ Location _____________ Date ________________ Time____________ Air Temp________ Data Collection Weather: ___Sunny ___Rainy ___Windy (How much? Light Breezy Gusty High Winds ) ___Cloudy Soil: ___Wet How far down is it wet? ____inches ___Leaf Litter How deep is it? ____inches ___Sandy How far down to reach it? ...

Site Overview - Allow students to orient themselves to the site by walking around the schoolyard using the building as the point of reference. - How is the schoolyard divided? (play structures, designated play area, natural areas, and roads - Where are the human-made boundaries? Natural boundaries? (Scale: pace off and record distances to certain...