Hello all and welcome to the Salmon In Your Classroom project 2012/13!
To those of you who are experienced salmon people, welcome back! To those of you newbies, welcome to our online community where you can find pictures and support for the project.
Bev and I had two very busy days delivering eggs to your classrooms! We saw 44 classes and hundreds of kids from kindergarten to senior biology. We so enjoy the opportunity to meet your students and thank them personally for participating in the project. We know that children who learn about the salmon in school will continue to care as they get older and develop a stronger connection to their environment.
The "Little Campbell" folks should have received their two containers of food in the courier last week. Please remember that you do not need to feed the salmon until about half of them have buttoned up and are fry. Instructions for feeding, tank care and a host of other useful tidbits, please visit Bev's site at http://www.salmonidsintheclassroom.ca
I encourage you to ask questions in this forum and share the work that your students do. So far this year I've received a picture trying to confirm the status of a dead egg, some notes about alevin in tanks and many, many questions about cooling units.
Microscope pictures
Check out this alevin! You can see its eye in the lower left and the yolk sac quite clearly! This picture was taken by a former student using a digital microscope with a 50x lens at Erma Stephenson Elementary.
Monday, 14 January 2013
Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Thanks to the students in Mr. Bobrownik's class for this cool video on their alevin.
From their class blog -Mr. Bobrownik's Weebly site
After a month of waiting, our eggs began hatching last Thursday. When we came to school today (after 3 three days off) all 54 of our eggs had hatched. Today we cleaned the egg cases from the tank and filter and checked the water quality. All was well!
From their class blog -Mr. Bobrownik's Weebly site
After a month of waiting, our eggs began hatching last Thursday. When we came to school today (after 3 three days off) all 54 of our eggs had hatched. Today we cleaned the egg cases from the tank and filter and checked the water quality. All was well!
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
I Am A Coho!
While out visiting SIYC classrooms today, I was treated to a song by Mrs. Van gerven's class - "I Am A Coho" sung to the tune of "I Am A Pizza". I am very happy to share it with you along with photos of their redd dioramas.
If your class has photos, stories, or songs to share please let me know!
While out visiting SIYC classrooms today, I was treated to a song by Mrs. Van gerven's class - "I Am A Coho" sung to the tune of "I Am A Pizza". I am very happy to share it with you along with photos of their redd dioramas.
If your class has photos, stories, or songs to share please let me know!
Monday, 9 January 2012
Posting to the blog...
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With FirstClass winding down and Sharepoint not quite ready to take its place, I've been looking for a new place on the web for us to share ideas, pictures, issues, etc. regarding the Salmon In Your Classroom project. The 'Salmon' conference will soon be removed and the information within it transferred to our new web presence, so today I am happy to announce the launch of the Salmon In Your Classroom blogspot (http://salmonclassroom.blogspot.com/) Feel free to contribute to the blog or just read what others have to say.
Right now, Bev and I are particularly interested in the mortality rates of the eggs from the Little Campbell Hatchery – you'll remember that Bob was having issues with the eggs prior to our delivery date. Would those of you with Little Campbell eggs please make comment on the blog (or send me an email) as to how many 'morts' you've had so far? If the numbers are very high, we will have to do something – what, I'm not sure yet! We would appreciate that information by the end of the week (January 13).
Thank you for your continued support of the project and I hope to see many of you online soon!
Delivery day #2
Happy New Year!
Last week Kevin, Chris, Bev and I delivered the last of this year's eggs from the Tynehead Hatchery. As usual, the kids were very excited to receive their babies and asked some very interesting questions about the salmon. My favourite was a gr. 4 student from Colebrook who asked how I was going to get the eggs into the tank. Without missing a beat, Chris told him that I was going to helicopter them in :) I can just imagine our little eggs with parachutes dropping into the tank...
Some of the Little Campbell tanks appear to have alevin in them already! That's super news. Please remember that you can upload pictures of your salmon, student work or pictures to this blog. It's wonderful for the students to know that there are other classrooms in the District who are learning about salmon just like they are - 51 to be exact.
Remember that if you have any issues with your tank (mortalities, temperature or pH issues, etc) that you can send me a note at lim_s@sd36.bc.ca
Last week Kevin, Chris, Bev and I delivered the last of this year's eggs from the Tynehead Hatchery. As usual, the kids were very excited to receive their babies and asked some very interesting questions about the salmon. My favourite was a gr. 4 student from Colebrook who asked how I was going to get the eggs into the tank. Without missing a beat, Chris told him that I was going to helicopter them in :) I can just imagine our little eggs with parachutes dropping into the tank...
Some of the Little Campbell tanks appear to have alevin in them already! That's super news. Please remember that you can upload pictures of your salmon, student work or pictures to this blog. It's wonderful for the students to know that there are other classrooms in the District who are learning about salmon just like they are - 51 to be exact.
Remember that if you have any issues with your tank (mortalities, temperature or pH issues, etc) that you can send me a note at lim_s@sd36.bc.ca
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