Creatures of the Salish Sea

*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 link contains a lesson focusing on different species in the Salish Sea, career explore elements, as well as all the supporting documents to use in your google classroom.

Seashore Unit Lesson Plan

Classroom Visit Materials

Bivalve Exploration Activities

Clam Identification Slideshow

Wrapping Up

Post-assessment

Teacher Survey

Steward Certificate

In Class & Field Lessons

Welcome Teachers! Thank you for inviting Garden of the Salish Sea Curriculum into your classroom. We are excited to plan class visits and field trips with you!

Please prepare your students for our visits by working through the seashore lessons and familiarizing them with the Salish Sea Challenge.

Please print these materials:

Teachers are encouraged to choose from additional tie-in activities such as artwork, games and additional videos on this website, to enhance the materials.

Salish Sea Challenge

Garden of the Salish Sea Curriculum is funded through Career Connect Washington, the Whatcom Community Foundation’s Sustainable Whatcom Fund, the Rose Foundation, the Washington Department of Ecology, and individual donations.

We acknowledge and respect the treaty rights of the Coast Salish Peoples to the lands and waters of the Salish Sea and we recognize their stewardship since time immemorial.

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