Salmon Journey Game
Students will consider how salmon need different habits with a watershed at different stages in their life. They'll discover through a role playing game how salmon populations have decreased impacting the food web and come up with ways that humans through change can increase salmon populations and strengthen the food web.
Salmon Journey Game Lesson Plan
Location: Open area near Little Brown Church
Grades: K-4
Objectives: Students will be able to describe and demonstrate:
The many challenges that salmon face during their journey through the watershed
Explore human impact on the natural environment and the resulting effects on salmon populations and watershed health
Investigate how we can improve our watersheds and help increase salmon populations as a community
Learning Standards:
NGSS: LS2.C Ecosystem Dynamics, Functioning, and Resilience
Sustainability Standards: ESE Standard 2: The Natural and Built Environment
Materials:
Course set up:
Cones for marking the stream
Signs for lake, estuary, ocean
Props:
2 hula hoop & bin (ghost net)
2 Pool noodle (fishing pole)
six pack ring (representing plastics)
plastic straws
RX bottle on a noodle (representing prescriptions)
copper pennies (brake pads)
eagle puppet
sea otter puppet
orca puppet
black tarp rope (oil spill)
4 orange vests (ocean acidification)
Logs and sticks (natural obstacles)
12 silver/gray salmon sock puppets
Lesson Updates
There are extras of each position to account for larger class sizes
Lesson Demonstration Video
