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You're reading the lab journal of New Jersey TU's Trout in the Classroom program. These pages showcase work by NJ middle- and high school students and teachers who are spending a year together learning important conservation lessons from our State Fish, the brook trout.
What is Trout in the Classroom?
Trout in the Classroom is an innovative, hands-on conservation education curriculum serving grade-school, middle and high school students throughout the United States. Through the experience of raising trout from eggs, students learn the importance of clean natural water resources, streambank ecology, and various modes of scientific inquiry. In New Jersey, TIC is a cooperative effort of the NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife and the New Jersey State Council of Trout Unlimited, along with its member chapters who sponsor fish tanks and equipment in local schools. During 2006-7, NJ Trout in the Classroom will educate more than 4,000 students statewide on the importance of conserving our vital coldwater resources.
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TIC as seen through the artists’ eyes
Here is a photo taken of the artwork of Bedwell Elementary School in Bernardsville by TIC teacher Jim McCarron. I think I see some entries for the Pequest Hatchery’s annual trout stamp art contest!
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New Jersey streams are in better shape today than they have been in many years, but they still need our help...
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February 25th, 2008
NJTU and NJ Fish & Wildlife announce a new TIC coordinator
Sadly, after nearly three years as state coordinator for New Jersey’s Trout in the Classroom program, my new job with Trout Unlimited (Musconetcong Home River Initiative Project Coordinator) has forced me to move on from this volunteer position. The state council of TU has been hard at work with our friends and colleagues at NJ […]
December 6th, 2007
FishCam
Bedwell Elementary School now has a fishcam ……See the trout swimming live 24/7 at:
http://tinyurl.com/28w4mj
Check out real time brook trout in our largest tank, a 150 gallon beauty in the Somerset Hills area. Right now (12/6/07) you are looking at free swimming fry still in their breeder nets. Because this tank is so large, these fry […]
December 4th, 2007
We’ve added our 64th tank!
Today we welcomed back as a second year teacher Eileen Antonison who transfered to a new school district this year. Eileen was able to secure funding and purchase her tank recently and becomes our 64th tank in New Jersey this school year! Who would have thought that we would go from 1 program prior to […]
September 27th, 2007
Water Quality Tips - TIC unfolds, a timeline
This document is meant to be a teacher’s first line of defense for all water quality issues. Please keep a copy nearby at all times and become familiar with the content. Our goal was to greatly reduce ammonia spikes and other water quality issues that cause stress for the fish, students and teachers! […]