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The Basics
The Basics
Mandatory New Teacher Training: Dates: September 17, 2025 @3:30 - 6:30 (virtual) or October 11, 2025 @9:30 - 12:30 (virtual)
All new Classroom Aquarium Education Program (CAEP) teachers in San Joaquin County are required to attend one of the two training sessions listed above.
*Please note: While CDFW offers other training dates, only the two sessions listed above meet the eligibility requirements for participation in the San Joaquin County program.
Aquarium set up step by step video
Set up supplies | Tank Health Care | Disinfecting the tank
Visit Mokelumne River Hatchery. Email holly.barrett@wildlife.ca.gov
Meet Your Watershed Video Series
Meet Your Watershed Video Series
Storm Racers
Storm Racers
Do City of Lodi streets really drain directly to the Mokelumne River, unfiltered? Lodi students build storm drain racers to find out.
Do City of Lodi streets really drain directly to the Mokelumne River, unfiltered? Lodi students build storm drain racers to find out.
Salmon aren’t the only fish in the Mokelumne River. Learn about the watershed’s native trout species.
Mokelumen River Salmon to the sea
This 8-minute video highlights the Mokelumne River Fish Hatchery truck as it makes the salmon run to the sea.
Off they go! Salmon release
Thank you, Adrianne Go-Miller!
Lesson Resources
Lesson Resources
Green Guardians Lessons
Green Guardians Lessons
This lesson series is about how the combination of human activity and climate change have affected the life cycle of salmon and what Nimbus Fish Hatchery is doing to mitigate these problems.
Watershed
Watershed
Source: Survive the Sound
Grade 4
4-ESS2-2: Analyze and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth’s features.
Source: Innovative Technology in Science Inquiry
Middle School
Crumpled paper watershed, what affects your watershed, how healthy is your watershed? How murky is your watershed? Can you filter your water?
Source: CELP Teacher Submission
Grade: 5
5-ESS2-2 Students will describe and graph amounts of water and freshwater in various reservoirs.
Salmon Habitat & Behavior
Salmon Habitat & Behavior
Source: Columbia Springs, adapted Stepping
Salmon Life Cycle
Salmon Life Cycle
Source: California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
Source: Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Grades: 4-6
*Use Sedimentation Models (Notice-Wonder)
Source: Monterey Bay Aquarium
Grade: K
*Needs to be adapted
1-LS3-1 Make observations to construct an evidence -based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents
Source: California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
Source: Unknown, recreated by Starr
Salmon Spawning at the Mokelumne
Salmon Spawning at the Mokelumne
Source: K. Grant
Video
Source: PBS Learning Media
Grade: 3
3-LS1.B.1- Reproduction is essential to the continued existence of every kind of organism. Plants and animals have unique and diverse life cycles.
Structure and Function
Structure and Function
Source: California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
Art
Art
Fish Aquarium
Build your fish habitat in a jar
Teacher Training 10/28/21 Notes
Teacher Training 10/28/21 Notes
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