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  • Chatham High School
  • Chatham, VA
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

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To get students excited about conservation ethics and personal responsibility, they have the opportunity to interact directly with wildlife. To breed this enthusiasm, our classroom aquarium, will provide students the experience of watching brown trout grow from eggs to fry in our carefully controlled aquarium environment, before releasing them into the wild. The aquarium will allow us to bring the brown trout into our classroom to raise awareness about pollution, watersheds, habitats, and ecosystem connectivity. The more engaged our students are with the environment around them, the more aware they are of the role they have in protecting it. The excitement of watching the development of the fish inside the egg and the hatch to fry engages students in a tangible understanding the life cycle. The emotions felt when students realize that not all the eggs will hatch and that not all the fry will survive, will educate them on the wide array of factors that can impact the survival of brown trout in the natural world. The aquarium will help raise awareness of how sensitive trout are to water quality changes as we monitor water quality to ensure the best environment to raise brown trout. The students at the end of the hatch will then have a field trip to release our brown trout fry into the Smith River which feeds into our local watershed. The act of releasing our fish to the wild allows students to interact with nature and develop an appreciation for the home of our brown trout.

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To get students excited about conservation ethics and personal responsibility, they have the opportunity to interact directly with wildlife. To breed this enthusiasm, our classroom aquarium, will provide students the experience of watching brown trout grow from eggs to fry in our carefully controlled aquarium environment, before releasing them into the wild. The aquarium will allow us to bring the brown trout into our classroom to raise awareness about pollution, watersheds, habitats, and ecosystem connectivity. The more engaged our students are with the environment around them, the more aware they are of the role they have in protecting it. The excitement of watching the development of the fish inside the egg and the hatch to fry engages students in a tangible understanding the life cycle. The emotions felt when students realize that not all the eggs will hatch and that not all the fry will survive, will educate them on the wide array of factors that can impact the survival of brown trout in the natural world. The aquarium will help raise awareness of how sensitive trout are to water quality changes as we monitor water quality to ensure the best environment to raise brown trout. The students at the end of the hatch will then have a field trip to release our brown trout fry into the Smith River which feeds into our local watershed. The act of releasing our fish to the wild allows students to interact with nature and develop an appreciation for the home of our brown trout.

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