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Third-graders raise salmon in classroom; release planned May 6
Summary
A third-grade teacher and students at Schoolcraft Elementary presented a project-based-learning salmon program run through the state DNR. About 50 eggs were introduced in November; roughly 20 fish remain. Students tracked water quality, maintained journals and will release the fish May 6; the class maintains a blog at salmonsquad.blog.
At the Waterford School District Board of Education meeting, third-grade teacher Ashley Back of Schoolcraft Elementary and several of her students described a project-based learning unit in which the class raised salmon from eggs provided by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Back told the board she applied for the DNR classroom program, set up and cycled a tank, and raised about 50 eggs beginning in November.
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