IN CLASS & FIELD LESSONS
Welcome Teachers! Thank you for inviting Garden of the Salish Sea Curriculum into your classroom. If we are working in your school directly, find the complete set of materials that you will need below. Download and print. Find the PowerPoints and videos for select exercises linked below.
Please print these materials:
Students will need to use our website to complete their science notebook. This can be done during computer or library time. Teachers are encouraged to choose from additional tie-in activities such as artwork, games and additional videos on this website, to enhance the materials.
If you are interested in using our curriculum independently, you may choose to download the individual lessons and exercises below per the needs of your classroom.
Lesson Plans
Student Materials
WQ and Macro-invertebrates Powerpoint (downloads file)
Other Resources
Documentaries to watch with the class include A Plastic Ocean (2016) and Lost and (Puget) Sound.
For more information about Whatcom Marine Mammal Stranding Network check out their website here.
An Overview of Marine Mammal Rehab in the PNW by SR3’s Patrick Hutchins-Webinar presented by Western Washington University
NEW VIRTUAL LEssons here!
**Teacher note: these google drive documents are view only, but you can make a copy of them to use in your google classroom, download, or print them. Each folder contains a lesson that guides students through the materials as well as all the supporting documents to use in your google classroom.
Learning about how water moves through the system helps students understand how their everyday actions can impact on the health of their watershed. This simple model introduces them to some common pollution sources to prepare them to take the Salish Sea Challenge and practice new habits. While this model is extremely simple, it does a great job of showing students how the pollutants travel through the Salish Sea watershed.
In order to get a closer look to what is living in the water around us we first need to learn how to use microscopes! In this lesson we have compiled some online resources to teach the basics of microscopy.
Once students are familiar with the microscope we can use it to explore what is living in our water! This lesson takes a look at some of the aquatic organisms we can find in three different water bodies in the same watershed.
Water Quality & Macroinvertebrates
When studying water quality we can use not only water quality tests, but also what biological indicators live in the waterbody! This lesson takes a look at both water quality tests and the macroinvertebrates in Cain Creek to help students classify the health of the creek.
For the last lesson in the unit we take a look at the megafauna that live in the Salish Sea watershed and how some of the actions we take have impacts on these marine mammals.