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Resource: One fish, two fish, dead fish, new fish
Description
Media (6 mins): We're following the underwater trail of hundreds of thousands of salmon returning to the stream where they were born. Excerpt: "Salmon are really amazing because they have this complex life cycle that includes the land, the sea and then back to the land. They hatch in streams, sometimes hundreds of kilometres inland. And then they start migrating down the river into estuaries where the river meets the sea."
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Activity (1 hour 30 mins): Biological survey - Students are challenged to conduct a survey of a species in a nearby habitat, using similar methods to those shown in the video.
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This is a free educational resource from the Canadian Government about the ocean, through the Ocean Frontier Institute at Dalhousie University and the National Film Board of Canada. Ocean School provides free, media-rich, ocean-based resources in multiple subjects for students in grades 5–12. Created by educators, scientists and storytellers, these interactive learning materials help students understand our influence on the ocean and the ocean’s influence on us. Ocean School is ad-free and requires no login for teacher or student.
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