Salmon
Fishing
Salmon
Fishing
The Aquarium tour is geared towards
elementary school students, and the Mobile
Field Lab is for middle school students.
The Aquarium tour begins with a 45 minute
presentation on salmon and people and the
importance of clean water and a healthy habitat,
elementary school students will have the
opportunity to tour the Aquarium and the Salmon
Ladder exhibits where students can observe Big
King salmon swimming in an underwater dome,
spawners coming up the fish ladder, and eggs
are hatching in special tanks.
Middle school students have the opportunity to
participate in the Seattle Aquarium's Mobile
Field Lab (left picture).
Designed especially for
grades 6-8, the Seattle Aquarium's Mobile Field Lab
features a hands-on exploration
of Puget Sound's diverse ecosystems.
The Mobile Field Lab is
a 27-foot truck that has been converted into a field
laboratory. It is equipped
with microscopes, specimen tanks, field guides, field
equipment and teaching
aids used to guide local students during outdoor filed
trips.
Starting with a 45-minute
orientation in the students' classrooms, the lab involves
a three-hour field trip
to a stream, estuary, wetland, or beach--depending on
students' choice and the
time of year--for an outdoor investigation.
Aside from all the science
and action-plans, the Mobile Field Lab serves one
greater purpose. In essence,
it is a vehicle that allows the people of this modern
world to take a step away
from the maze of industrialization and simply walk at
peace in a beautiful part
of the world that we call, the wild.
This field trip is available
year round. The following program curriculum describes
what is available during
certain times of the year. Teachers, please choose the
type of ecosystem you want
to study, and note the time of the year the program
is offered. Call the Aquarium
Registrar at (206) 386-4353 to schedule orientations
and field trips. Orientations
should be scheduled within five days of your field trip
program date.
THE FALL PROGRAM:
Freshwater Streams
characteristics of healthy salmon
habitats
salmon life cycle
water quality testing (chemical,
biological, physical)
THE SPRING PROGRAM:
Estuaries and Wetlands
food web
human impact
plant and animal adaptations
pollution issues and solutions
LOW TIDE MONTH (MAY):
Beaches of Puget Sound
beach etiquette
invertebrates
conservation
zonation
human impact
plankton
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