3 - 4
| Through their investigations with the NGSS-aligned lessons in this unit, students develop an understanding of salmon life cycles; internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction; different inherited traits and the affect the environment can have on these traits; and the impacts humans can have on salmon and their habitat. These lessons can be used when raising salmon in your classroom, observing them being raised virtually, or not raising them at all. Teachers can download and print copies of the unit for their use. Bound copies are made available at periodic teacher trainings.
| Digital Curriculum
| Salmon and Their Habitat unit
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9 - 12
| WSU Researcher Dr. Jennifer McIntyre shares 2021 research on causes of pre-spawn mortality in salmon and the discovery of a tire chemical that impacts stormwater and coho salmon
| YouTube Video | Where the Rubber
Meets the Road
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3 - 5 and 9 - 12
| Polluted stormwater runoff is the number one threat to the water quality of the Puget Sound. These curricula develop and cultivate an understanding of the serious issues facing our community from stormwater runoff and to share specific actions we can take to improve the quality of our water. In these units, students will utilize problem solving models to replicate the thinking process of engineers addressing polluted stormwater runoff. | Digital Curricula |
Drain Rangers! & Engineering Solutions: Investigating Polluted Stormwater Runoff |
K - 5
| Based at Central Kitsap Heritage Park, local volunteer Frank Strickland talks about beavers, water table, and how our inland areas are connected to our streams and Puget Sound. Highlights a school rain garden project at Klahowya Secondary School.
| Vimeo Video
4:11 |
Who Uses the Rain?
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K - 5
| Based at Ollala Elementary School, students explain the connection between the community and Olalla Creek. Includes information about rain gardens and permeable pavement.
| Vimeo Video
4:26
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Who Swims in the Rain?
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K - 5
| Author and biologist Ron Hirschi takes you to two different streams in Poulsbo and shows some of the impact human development has had on salmon habitat.
| Vimeo Video
4:16
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Is This Where Puget Sound Starts? |
K - 12
| Amazing up-close look at the macroinvertebrate caddisfly and how they build homes with "double-sided sticky tape". Connection to bioengineering as well as salmon.
| YouTube Video
3:50
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PBS Deep Look: Sticky, Stretchy, Waterproof - The Amazing Underwater Tape of the Caddisfly
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3 - 12
| Puget Sound diver Laura James takes us inside a stormwater outfall in Seattle for an up-close look. Researcher Jennifer McIntyre presents research being conducted at the Washington Stormwater Center in Puyallup to see how polluted runoff impacts aquatic life.
| Vimeo Video
8:37
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Drained: Urban Stormwater Pollution |
3 - 12
| From the Nature Conservancy - similar to "Drained: Urban Stormwater Pollution" but less detail about the research.
| YouTube Video
5:52
| Solving Stormwater
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3 - 12
| Follow three teens as they search for a lost key down a storm drain, and learn about stormwater pollution in Puget Sound and you can do about it.
| YouTube Video
29:00
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Lost and Puget Sound |
3 - 12
| King County - what stormwater is and how a stormwater system works. Applicable in Kitsap County.
| Vimeo
Video
1:47
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How a Stormwater System Works |
