• Unit Overview
  • Overview
  • Guiding Question
  • Grade Level/Audience
  • Unit Concepts
  • Standards
  • Education and the Environment Initiative
  • Tips for Managing the Unit
  • Unit Assessment
  • Materials Needed
  • Background Information
• Unit Activities
  • Unit Activities
  • Activity 1: Getting to Know Salmon and Steelhead
  • Activity 2: The Incredible Journey
  • Activity 3: Community Art Project
  • Activity 4: Community Survey
  • Activity 5: Salmon and Steelhead Creek Walk
  • Activity 6: Defining Our Watershed
  • Activity 7: Watershed Web Search
  • Activity 8: Mapping Our Community
  • Activity 9: Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories Web Search
  • Activity 10: Designing for Salmon and Steelhead
  • Activity 11: Creek Monitoring
  • Activity 12: Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Project
  • Activity 13: Community Celebration
• Participant Activities
  • Participant Activities
  • Watershed Web Search
  • Salmon and Steelhead Life Stories Web Search
• Materials List
• Resources
  • Resources
  • Information about Salmon and Steelhead
  • Watersheds
  • Aerial Photographs and Mapping
  • Resource Agencies and Organizations
  • Restoration Projects
  • Monitoring
  • Art Projects
  • Surveys and Community Mapping
  • Other Curricula
  • Stories and Music
  • Raising Salmon and Steelhead
  • Videos
  • Scientific Supply Companies
  • Recipes
• Acknowledgements
  • Acknowledgements
  • Adopt-A-Watershed
  • California 4-H Youth Development Program

Other Curricula

Curricula

• From Ridges to Rivers: Watershed Explorations, 4-H
  
  
• Adopting a Stream: A Northwest Handbook. Steve Yates and Sandra Noel. Adopt a Stream Foundation.
• American River Salmon: Educator Activity Guide. Project Aquatic Wild. Bobby Winn.
• Salmon and Trout Education Program. The Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project. Hugh Miller: 408-268-3945,
• Waves, Wetlands, and Watersheds. California Coastal Commision.
• Kids in the Creek. Bonneville Power Administration.
• Project WET: Water Education for Teachers. Montana State University - Bozeman.

Place-Based Learning

• Research on Place and Space - resources and links on fostering a sense of place

Rubrics

• RubiStar - an online tool for writing rubrics
• Web Quests Corps Quest - Students determine what changed in the area at the mouth of the Columbia as a result of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery spending 6 months there in 1805-06
• Save the Salmon - Students look for causes contributing to the decline in salmon stocks and can help come up with a plan to help save the salmon.

Classroom Web Sites

• The Salmon Cam by Ms. Haugen's science class, Florin High School in Sacramento, CA.
• The Salmon Page by Horace Mann Elementary School, Redmond, Washington