Field Day Ideas

• Tips -- good things to remember
• Three Station Rotation -- one idea for your day

Science

• Habitat Assessment Worksheets -- for brook trout streams
• Trout Release Worksheet -- one way to record
• Stream Assessment -- choose the best place for trout
• Dissolved Oxygen -- test the water
• Macroinvertebrate Collection -- seining and kick-netting
• Stream Clean-up -- why it matters
• Geomorphic Features -- stream shape and size
• Pebble Count -- what's on the stream bottom?
• Turbidity -- how clear is the water?
• Temperature -- how cold is the water?
• Forest Hike -- the relationship between trout and trees
• Clean a Stream -- to help keep trout habitat pristine
• Predator Tag -- trout chase mayflies, raccoons chase trout
• Bus Trip Scavenger Hunt -- look out the windows as you travel
• Scavenger Hunt -- looking around the stream
• Sing "Happy Free Day" -- to the tune of "Happy Birthday"
• Postcards from the Watershed -- observation and sharing

Social Studies

• Map-making -- map your trout stream
• Humans and Trout -- our many interactions
• Culverts and Connection -- roads and streams intersect
• Trout Hatchery Visit -- see where you trout come from
• Visit from an Angler -- hear stories of fishing
• Clean a Stream -- to help keep trout habitat pristine
• Trout Release Worksheet -- one way to record

Language Arts

• Trout Release Scrapbook -- photos and captions
• Postcards from the Watershed -- observation and sharing
• Nature Poetry --inspired by the out-of-doors
• Trout Release Worksheet -- one way to record
• Trout Journals -- a yearlong study of trout
• • How do you feel about our upcoming release of trout?  Why?
  • What advice would you give our trout on their way to their new home?
  • What did you see while releasing our trout?  How did they behave?
  • How did you feel about releasing our trout?  Why?
  • Trout Release Worksheet -- one way to record

Math

• Trout Length -- different strategies for measuring
• Thermometers -- how to know the temperature
• Stream Flow -- velocity and volume

Fine Arts

• Postcards from the Watershed -- observation and sharing
• Shades of Green -- carefully seeing nature
• Trout Release Scrapbook -- photos and captions
• Nature Poetry -- inspired by the out-of-doors
• Songwriting -- rewirte lyrics to a favorite song
• Sketch Trout -- from your tank
• Sketch a Stream -- on a field day
• Bye-Bye Trout Song -- a farewell
• Trout Fin Dance -- feel how trout fins work
• Sing "Happy Free Day" -- to the tune of "Happy Birthday"
• Make Trout T-shirts -- in or to wear in the field
• Expanding Imagination -- writing and drawing from other perspectives
• • Trout
  • Macroinvertebrate
  • Water Droplet
  • Stream

Physical Education

• hike along a creek -- to examine trout habitat
• hike downstream -- to explore a watershed
• Predator Tag -- trout chase mayflies, raccoons chase trout
• Match the Hatch -- the whys of flyfishing