Lake Creek Salmon Watch

The first three films show salmon underwater at Lake Creek. The last shows them trying to jump the falls.

Under water films of Chinook salmon in Lake Creek where many classrooms saw salmon in 2008.
Salmonoids in the Classroom (Primary)   Salmonoids in the Classroom (Intermediate)
Salmon spawning at McKenzie Hatchery   Harvesting eggs at McKenzie Hatchery
Sockeye Salmon - National Geographic video   Salmon Egg Development
Something Fishy - for younger students   Glossopedia - all about salmon
Terms of Salmon Anatomy   Pictures of Salmon - click on the picture to enlarge the images.
Salmon Life Cycle Facts   Splash & Salmon Curriculum
Salmon Curriculum: Fish Eggs To Fry from ODFW - a how to booklet on raising salmon in the classroom   Salmon Song
Salmon Quizzes   New: Salmon Coloring Book (Primary)
Salmon Curriculum in pdf format developed by Salmon Watch.   Movies of salmon moving upstream to spawn.

Native American salmon art. Download a pdf image for students to color.

 

Save Our Salmon - a video of students forming a giant salmon
Think Salmon - the home page of the Pacific Salmon Foundation.   Tribal Fisheries Movie
Anatomy of a Salmon (internal & external pdf file)   New: Neets Bay Salmon Ranch: A salmon hatchery in Alaska
New: Salmon Digging - A short video of a salmon digging its redd   New: Sockeye Spawning - A short video of Sockeye salmon fertilizing a redd
Salmon Challenge - You are the first hatchling of your redd. As the oldest, you are the REDD LEADER. It is your job to make decisions that will give you and the rest of your siblings the best chances for survival at each stage of your journey to the ocean and back to spawn.
New: Salmon Challenge - Salmon Challenge is a game to help you see how your decisions help or harm our environment and our salmon. This game was developed for grades 4 through 9. Salmon Challenge requires Shockwave Player plug-in to view the animations.

Salmon Egg

 
Raising salmon in the classroom is one of our most popular programs with both students and teachers. Any Eugene 4J teacher can choose to participate in this exciting project. We supply all of the equipment, provide an after school workshop to help you set up your tank, provide ready to go lessons and how-to materials, and provide extensive online information. If you would like to participate, contact John Bezelj at 790-5920 or e-mail him at: bezelj@4j.lane.edu
Teachers of 5th grade or blended 4/5 grades who raise salmon, also have the opportunity to take a field trip to either Fish Creek or Whitaker Creek to see spawning in the wild! There are some requirements in order to qualify for these popular trips. If you are interested, watch your e-mail. John will be sending out information about the trips in early fall.

There is extensive background information on the web to help you to learn about how to raise your salmon or to plan your lessons.

Elementary teachers should click on the SALMON link on the Virtual Eugene Pages. Secondary teachers should click on the SALMON link on the Tale of Two Rivers pages.