by | May 26, 2016 | Columbia Springs, Salmon in the Classroom
Yesterday, Salmon in the Classroom Coordinator Katie and I had the pleasure of facilitating some activities at a summer camp-themed OMSI After Dark! For those of you who don’t know, OMSI After Dark is a nearly-monthly event for adults to enjoy the museum...
by | Mar 23, 2016 | Salmon in the Classroom
Property owners Jim and Barbara Orander welcomed hundreds of kids to their home in Battle Ground on March 11th to help them release the coho salmon they raised from eggs in their remote site incubator. What’s a “remote site incubator”? It’s a...
by | Jan 29, 2016 | Salmon in the Classroom
More specifically, where did YOUR salmon eggs come from? How did they come to be inside a red plastic Solo cup filled with 250 of their brothers and sisters? All our eggs come from Lewis River Hatchery. Our eggs were spawned, picked, sorted, and shocked between...
by | Dec 18, 2015 | Salmon in the Classroom
Because Clark County has the BEST teachers a Salmon in the Classroom program could hope for, we had a couple questions about whether our salmon would survive the high run-off conditions in our streams and rivers. It’s been RAINY. I released some fish yesterday for...
by | Nov 23, 2015 | Salmon in the Classroom
Alice Yang and Kam Lawrence just joined Salmon in the Classroom this year, but they’ve already taught me a thing or two about salmon. Before this fall, I never knew how important Otter Pops could be in raising healthy baby salmon. The 4th and 5th grade students at...
by | Jan 1, 2015 | Salmon in the Classroom
Other teachers have complained that the salmon tank smells bad. Is there anything I can do, besides regular water changes? There are only a couple times you should expect “fishy” smells with SITC: during a dissection activity, or when you open your ziplock...
