FROM EGGS TO FISH: RAISING TROUT IN THE CLASSROOM

摘要

My son came home from school one day early in the school year and announced that his second-grade class would be raising trout. I was immediately intrigued. I'd seen classrooms leafing out with ivy plants, others with caterpillars morphing into monarchs, and plenty containing goldfish and guppy aquariums, but I'd never heard of raising trout. I soon learned that my son's class would be participating in Trout in the Classroom (TIC), a nationwide program that has been educating students about nature for more than 30 years. TIC has three main objectives: 1) connect students to their local environments and their local watershed; 2) teach them about watershed health and water quality; and 3) get kids to care about fish and the environment.