Students at Pine Tree School celebrated the arrival of their trout eggs with a surprise baby shower. Creative parents baked fish themed treats and students participated in a variety of fish themed games and activities!
Heidi Belle-Isle’s class from Pine Tree Elementary School in Center Conway are all set to receive their brook trout eggs from Berlin Fish Hatchery. Over 85 schools in NH participate every year to raise trout eggs to the fingerling stage and then release them into their local river.
Here is a link to a video from Sandwich Central School showing an example of trout in the "swimming up" stage: Swim-ups.
Here's a video recapping Trout in the Classroom at Somersworth Middle School for the 2015-2016 school year. An update from Mrs. Orestis's Grade 8 Science class at Sanborn Regional Middle School.
Our eggs hatched the day after we got them in the tank so that was a big surprise! We have a few 2 headed, or conjoined trout but not a lot. We will be using water samples from the Pow Wow River that runs through Newton and the Exeter River, where is runs through Kingston to see which is the best for the trout. We will also visit both to examine the substrate, riparian zone, and dissolved oxygen levels. We do most of this in March. There have been lots of reports of conjoined and two-headed trout in New Hampshire TIC Classrooms this year. Some new photos are posted below. Check out some of the new resources and classroom activities sent in by Mary Jolles of Colebrook Elementary School. They have been posted under "Classroom Resources" on the Resources tab. Shane Clifford of Bernice A. Ray School also contributed a color-coded Developmental Index chart that has been posted under on the NH TIC Documents tab. Thanks for the additional resources for all of our TIC teachers to utilize! Keep them coming!
Road salt runoff is a concern for the watersheds of NH. Here is a document describing the efforts by the state to protect the safety of drivers in winter while also protecting the plants and wildlife of the watersheds from the salt runoff. This is also a link to the NH Department of Environmental Services' information about road salt reduction. Fourth graders at School Street School researched prey and predators of trout. They created Keynote presentations of their research. Here are a few examples of the projects made by Alahna, Oasis and DeAndre. |
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