This reading and three-level guide describe pioneering research exploring how salmon find their way back to their spawning stream. This outdoor game models the salmon life cycle and its hazards. Toothpick Fish Toothpicks model salmon genes in this activity in which students explore how natural selection changes genetic diversity and how hatcheries alter salmon gene pools. People of the Salmon Students use a text to help research and present traditonal northwest Native American ways of life with emphasis on ways the Native Americans were catching and using salmon before the 1800s. Early Contact Two student teams role play two very different fictional cultures meeting and attempting to trade items each group values.
Students explore the dangers in misunderstanding unfamiliar cultures.
Students analyze how the Boldt decision allocating fish in U.S. northwest waters has affected native and non-native fishermen. This activity introduces contaminants commonly introduced into estuarine waters. The following lessons teach students how to perform and interpret nine water quality tests and assemble them into an overall water quality index. Water Quality Monitoring - Dissolved Oxygen 24. Water Quality Monitoring - Nitrates and Phosphates 26.