Salmon in the Classroom
CRWP and partners establish a salmon tank in the Cordova schools for educating students about salmon.
CRWP and the Prince William Sound Science Center are working together with Cordova's 3rd - 5th grade classes to raise salmon in Mt. Eccles Elementary School. The tank was set-up on October 28th with the help of Jay Baumer from Alaska Department of Fish & Game.
Students traveled to Fleming Spit to help collect and fertilize coho salmon eggs for their school.
The tank is set up in the Mango Room and looks like this:
Stay tuned for updates as our salmon eggs begin to grow. Cordova students are regularly connecting with classrooms in Kenny Lake, Valdez and Yakutat, Alaska to share observations about their salmon tank as well as to exchange weather data.
Our Eggs have Eyes!
As of mid-December, our salmon eggs started to develop eyes! This picture was taken on January 3rd, 2012. Any day now we should start to see the eggs hatch...we have reached over 400 accumulated thermal units!
They played a trick on us! We thought they'd hatch sooner, but as of February 9th we still have eyed eggs, but with much more developed eyes.
And the hatched!
Sometime between Saturday (2/18) afternoon and Monday (2/20) afternoon our eggs hatched!
Sponsors and Partners
Thanks to our sponsors and partners who have made this project possible:
- Alaska Department of Fish & Game
- Cordova School District
- North Pacific Research Board
- Orca Adventure Lodge
- Prince William Sound Science Center
- Valdez School District
- Yakutat School District
