This enduring program teaches city students the value of a healthy environment
Trout in the classroom: it’s a concept that’s been around Trout Unlimited and executed to great effect for more than three decades. The idea is simple: install a fish tank, fill it with water, insert eggs, watch them hatch and grow, learn about them, and then release them.
Trout Unlimited is just one of many organizations who implement the Trout in the Classroom (TIC) program into more than 5000 classrooms nationwide. From kindergarten through high school, programs focus on caring for trout or salmon and their environments and expand to understanding their life cycles and then advance to water chemistry, hydrology, natural resource management and watershed geology and ecology. But the exact curriculum is mostly left up to the educators.
Continue reading at TU.org.
