STREAM TO SEA for Intermediate Grades
This resource guide enables any teacher to help students understand basic seashore ecology. Students develop basic inquiry skills, including how to collect and identify plankton, use microscopes, conduct beach studies, keep a field notebook, and much more. Published 2000. 287 pages. Available from Kingfisher Press.
Show your students four life cycle stages of the Pacific Salmon: eggs, eyed eggs, alevin and fry. This is a great way to augment the new primary and intermediate Salmonids in the Classroom. Specimens are preserved in four glass vials for easy viewing and securely installed in a wooden display rack that can be handled by students. 15 cm x 10 cm x 3 cm. Available from DFO.
Full Title: "Table Talk - A Learning Resource for the Study of Land and Water Allocation in British
Columbia". This learning resource includes a teacher's guide and thirty-three student booklets and is designed to teach decision-making skills especially as they relate to land-use conflict. Students participate in simulations, taking on the roles of people who represent different sectors or interest groups (forestry, settlement, tourism and recreation, fishing, agriculture, mining and conservation). Working together they plan the future land-use and water use in Pangea River Valley, a hypothetical area in British Columbia. All background information is based on accurate BC statistics. The package also includes short units on watersheds, plays and two short videos entitled "Snapshots" and "Connections". Published 1996. 850 pages.
Available
from DFO.
Full Title: "The Watershed Works - A learning Resource for the Study of the Fraser River and its Basin."
Using a jigsaw approach, this unit provides current information, maps and up-to-date field-tested teaching strategies to help students "piece together" various topics (biodiversity, river health, history, settlement, wildlife, mining, forestry, fishing, agriculture and tourism) to form a holistic picture of how the Fraser River is addressing the issue of sustainability. Published 1995. 136 pages.
Available
from DFO.
Window on the Fraser
Full title: "Window on the Fraser: Fraser River Action Plan".
This package includes a 15 minute video, teacher and student background information, and pre-post classroom activity suggestions. The video provides an overview of the Fraser River Basin and the need to protect its valuable resources, as well as an introduction to some of the programs carried out by the federal government to improve the basin's health. Published 1994.
Available
from DFO.
Thousands of B.C. and Yukon school children are learning about salmonids in a hands-on way through Stream to Sea's Classroom Incubation Program. Fisheries and Oceans Canada provides specially-equipped aquariums for classrooms studying Salmonids in the Classroom. These aquariums are stocked with salmonid eggs, which students care for and monitor until the fry are ready for release to a local creek. This fry release provides an excellent opportunity for a field trip. While it offers one of the most rewarding educational experiences when used in conjunction with Salmonids in the Classroom or a science unit, this program does require considerable teacher commitment and attendance at an in-service session. Supply of aquariums is limited and not all requests can be met in any given year. Contact your
Community Advisor or
Education Coordinator to inquire about the availability of this Program in your community. No charge.
Marine and Aquatic Educators' GuideIn 1997, Fisheries and Oceans Canada undertook a review of existing marine conservation learning resources to determine if any met the key concepts identified as priority educational messages by the Department. The results of the review have been summarized in the Marine and Aquatic Educator's Resource Guide, as a service to teachers who are often seeking educational materials related to aquatic conservation. Published 2001. 49 pages. Available from DFO.
Carried out in urban areas under sponsorship of Fisheries and Oceans Canada this program gives children an active role in protecting their environment by marking storm drains with
bright yellow fish and circulating information to advise residents that these drains empty into local creeks. A video (for children) and manual (for teachers or leaders) are available. This activity is suitable for children working in small groups and supervision is mandatory. Contact your
Community Advisor
or Education Coordinator to obtain the necessary materials to conduct this activity. No charge.
In-service sessions are conducted on a regular basis and can be initiated by the school district. Workshops on various topics run from one to three hours to whole day sessions and are held at the participants' convenience (after school, on weekends or on professional development days). Contact your Community Advisor or Education Coordinator to see what in-service sessions are available in your community. No charge.
The Streamkeepers Handbook: A Practical Guide to Stream and Wetland CareView PDF Document
This guide is designed
for use by volunteers (individuals, groups and schools) committed to protect, restore and monitor Stream
corridors in the Province of British Columbia.
British Columbia's streams, lakes and wetlands are valuable natural resources. Stream corridors are particularly important. They support more species of plants and animals than any other habitats and provide important refuges and migration routes for birds and wildlife. Streams also are essential for maintaining British Columbia's renowned salmon and trout runs.
Streams respond rapidly to the pressures of residential and industrial activity in surrounding drainage areas or watersheds. Streams are good indicators of watershed health.
In British Columbia we all live within a watershed, be it coastal rain forest or interior dry land. We all share the responsibility of maintaining the quality of natural resources within them.
This guide aims to: