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Olympic National Park

Salmon Nutrient Cycling
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This activity helps students learn how marine-derived nutrients from salmon carcasses find their way into terrestrial environments and how scientists can track these marine-derived nutrients to analyze their importance to ecosystems today, as well as reconstructing past ecosystem processes.

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

How Many Salmon Are Enough?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Use this lesson to explore ecology, biodiversity and populations. This lesson takes real life experiences and scientific data to connect with students at a personal level and achieve a greater understanding in how wildlife and humans are connected.

Olympic National Park

Habitat Requirements of Pacific Salmon
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students will learn about the specific habitat requirements for each Pacific salmon species, as well as, other anadromous fish of the Elwha River watershed. The ecological habitat of each salmon species includes their adult range in the ocean and the specific parts of the river, and its tributaries, that are critical spawning habitat.

Olympic National Park

Salmon: The Life-giving Gift
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will be given a handout to read which includes an Introduction, an account by a Salmon Priest of the Skagit River, and two legends. They will then investigate the relationship of the Klallam Tribe to the salmon of the Elwha River before the dams were built and after the dams were built. Students will organize information into a chart. Students will then compose their own story about how the salmon returned to the Elwha River.

Olympic National Park

What Do Salmon Need To Survive?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students will be able to determine if salmon raised at school will survive in a local water source by testing conditions.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "The Impacts of Hydroelectric Dams on Salmon"
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Through this activity, students will learn about the impacts of hydroelectric dams on anadromous salmon migration and some of the mitigation techniques that have been designed to reduce these impacts.

Olympic National Park

Calling the Salmon Back to the Elwha: Poems for the Adventurous Anadromous
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students will learn about "question and answer" poems and then write their own that uses two voices: one to call the salmon back to the River and the other to respond to the caller.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "Hatcheries - Saviors or Scourge for Wild Salmon?"
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This activity helps students understand the history and roles that hatcheries serve in sustaining commercial fisheries, native fish populations, and saving endangered fish stocks. They will also do their own research on the pros and cons of hatcheries.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "Marine-Derived Nutrients from Salmon"
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Through this activity, students will learn how the carcasses of dead adult salmon support young salmon and how salmon are essential to the marine food web as well as the freshwater ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "Salmon Farming - A Potential but Not Ideal Solution"
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In this activity, students will learn about the economic and ecological values and costs of salmon farming, and draft a paper addressing the decline of the Pacific Salmon.

Lake Clark National Park & Preserve

Can You Identify Me?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students will have the opportunity to study and identify fish as really wildlife biologists. They will watch clips taken of salmon swimming up stream through the Silver Salmon Weir in Lake Clark National Park. Their job will be to use their identification cards and see how many salmon they can identify as they swim past. Be careful -- some salmon look awfully similar!

Olympic National Park

Good Intentions
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In this activity, students will read about the loop hole and the subsequent repeal of the 1881 law and its replacement by a 1914 law that allowed below dam hatcheries to be built instead of waterways. The students will then compare the early economic gain from the dam to the Olympic Peninsula in the form of hydropower with the loss of the salmon and write an editorial for The Port Angeles Evening News either supporting the dam or supporting the salmon.

Olympic National Park

Restoring the Elwha River
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This activity focuses on the plans to remove the dams, restore the river, and return salmon to the Elwha River watershed. Students will complete reflection journal entries on dam removal and river restoration.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (Should the Dams on the Elwha be Removed? A Classroom Debate)
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Dams have been useful to human populations in providing water and energy for development of wilderness areas. Should we remove dams that have outlived their use in order to enhance the sustainability of natural and human communities?

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (Salmonid Natural History)
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

How does biological evolution account for the diversity and distribution of salmonid species?

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha: "Getting to Know Salmonids in the Elwha River" Research Activity
  • Type: Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will be introduced to the wild salmonid species of the Elwha River. After watching a power point presentation on the anadromous life styles of pacific salmonids, students will work in groups to research. Then students will compose a presentation on the lifestyle of a specific species of anadromous fish found in the Elwha River.

Olympic National Park

Freeing the Elwha (Good Intentions)
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Freeing the Elwha (Good Intentions)