Rural teachers to attend salmon training
September 27, 2011
Nineteen teachers from rural Alaska will attend a salmon-themed in-service training
Sept. 28 – Oct. 1 at the Wedgewood Resort in Fairbanks.
The training supports a classroom incubation project coordinated by the Cooperative Extension Service 4-H Natural Resource and Youth Development Program. Other co-sponsors include Alaska Sea Grant and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Organizer Peter Stortz, a 4-H natural resource and youth development specialist, said
salmon was chosen as a vehicle for a math and science education program because of
its economic and cultural value to the communities.
Teachers will learn how to participate in the incubation project and how to use materials
to create a yearlong program that integrates watershed monitoring, fisheries, biology,
subsistence, management issues, ocean science and climate change. The teachers also
will learn about how much seafood they eat, through the examination of isotopes in
fingernail clippings, and will monitor water quality and fish species along the Chena
River.
More information is available in the UAF Newsroom.