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Revved Up 50-Plus Specials CLASSIFIEDS Add a Classified Listing E-Edition Current E-Edition Salmon in the classroom Woodview third-grade students will spend year raising 150 salmon for release into Grand River By Cory Smith | on November 19, 2018 BELDING — For the next six months, students at Woodview Elementary School will spend time caring for and observing 150 tiny guests in their classroom. Woodview Elementary School third-grade students, withal with their teacher, Aaron Hamm, wear special salmon hats they created to commemorate the start of their “Salmon in the Classroom” project, as the students will now raise 150 salmon eggs and sooner release the fish into the Grand River at the completion of the school year. — DN Photo | Cory Smith On Tuesday, Woodview third-grade teacher Aaron Hamm spent a day yonder from his classroom to travel to the Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery in Mattawan, where he picked up 150 chinook salmon eggs to return to his classroom as part of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) “Salmon in the Classroom” project. For the rest of the school year, Hamm will work with his students, while moreover inviting other teachers and students to participate, in studying and caring for the fish as they grow from tiny eggs into physical fish. “My original stratum is in parks and recreation administration, so I’ve unchangingly had an interest in things like this. I finger it’s very important to requite kids an opportunity with hands-on, science education,” Hamm said. “The idea is that we’re going to raise — from these little eggs now to mid-May — when they will be three-to-five inch-long little chinook salmon.” A total of 150 salmon eggs will be cared for by students in Aaron Hamm’s third-grade classroom at Woodview Elementary School in Belding. The students will release the salmon when into their habitat in the Grand River, to make their way to Lake Michigan, in May. — DN Photo | Cory Smith Through a $1,500 grant from West Michigan Trout Unlimited, which provided the start-up financing to purchase a water tank, filters, fish feed, and other necessary items, Hamm was worldly-wise to introduce this program into his classroom with a goal to imbricate a variety of topics in education for his students. “It’s super heady for the kids to see the whole life trundling of these chinook salmon,” Hamm said. “There’s a lot of resources that I’ve been given through the program, and I’ll be teaching how salmon are an important natural resource in Michigan and how they play a part in commercial fishing.” Hamm said the students will be learning well-nigh the unshortened life trundling of the fish, as well as integrating concepts involving social studies while studying ecosystems and hatcheries. “There are science and biology, as well as math involved,” Hamm said. “Every day the students will test the water quality levels, ph levels, all of these variegated pieces to make sure the fish stay healthy. They’ll be waffly the water every week and cleaning the filters.” Hamm said there will be a feeding schedule that the students have to pinion to, and in addition, alimony track of those feedings in charts of when the fish are fed and how much they are fed. “I’m just so excited well-nigh this considering some of this is high-school level chemistry stuff that these third-grade students will be handling,” he said. “We’ve been talking well-nigh it for two months, and they are very excited.” Twin 9-year-old brothers Caleb and Eli Schwenke said while they’ve spent time hunting with their father, fishing has been limited, and their excitement to observe the salmon grow in their classroom is something they will take full wholesomeness of. On Wednesday, the brothers shared in the excitement with their fellow classmates as Hamm had the water tank up and running in the corner of the classroom with the salmon eggs settled in place. “I’ve never seen salmon, and my dad has only gone on one salmon fishing trip, so I was wondering well-nigh salmon and how they grow,” Caleb said. “I just want to see how they grow, considering you don’t know how fast or slow they’ll grow. It’s going to be really tomfool and amazing.” “It’s going to be really exciting,” Eli added. “Just well-nigh how they start as an egg and then get worthier and bigger, I was just thinking that releasing them and doing a tuft of stuff to take superintendency of them is going to be a lot of fun.” Hamm said on May 14, thanks to a grant from the Belding Education Fund, every third-grade student at Woodview will participate in a field trip to the Grand River in Lowell where the salmon will be ready to be released and make their way to Lake Michigan. Once the Salmon are grown and ready to be released, my goal is to get the parents and polity involved, as well as variegated local organizations,” Hamm said. “Other schools have worked with groups to provide kids with waders and fishing poles … and my goal is to get the whole polity involved with it considering we are getting young children interested in the natural ecosystem of Michigan and learning how to superintendency for and be good stewards of where they live. They are worldly-wise to learn the responsibility of stuff worldly-wise to to take superintendency of something, and that it’s such an important resource in Michigan.” Woodview Principal Bruce Cook applauded Hamm’s efforts in bringing a new educational element into the classroom. “The initiative for this project was solely on Mr. Hamm. All I had to do was sign the papers, and he’s the one that went out and found this project, unromantic for the grants, and found money for bussing,” he said. “He did all of that legwork on his own, he did a wonderful job, and it’s going to be a very tomfool thing for our third graders.” Share This Article:IncreasinglyFrom Local News Go To The Local News SectionVendors, towers owner left empty-handed without sudden closure of Home2Home consignment shop in GreenvillePlans coming together for Stanton’s Veterans Memorial ParkMilitary Mother Meet & Greet set for Dec. 11 Leave a Reply Cancel replyYou must be logged in to post a comment. 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