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Seattle Public Utilities offers free naturalist-led watershed field trips for 4th and 5th grade classes at its Cedar River Watershed Education Center, and it coordinates Salmon in the Schools, in which classes raise salmon eggs each winter and release the fish at a local creek in spring. A partnership with Nature Vision adds standards-aligned water conservation lessons for other grades.

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What you will find there

  • Free naturalist-led watershed field trips for 4th and 5th grade classes at the Cedar River Watershed Education Center, spring and fall
  • Salmon in the Schools, where classes raise salmon eggs each winter and release the fish at a local creek in spring
  • Youth Stormwater Education, connecting classroom learning to neighborhood drainage and local watersheds
  • A Water Conservation Education Program with partner Nature Vision, offering 45-to-60-minute lessons aligned to Next Generation Science Standards and Washington state standards
  • Online video and text resources on the drinking water system, conservation, and watershed history

Our take

Salmon in the Schools ties water quality directly to a species students watch grow over a school year, and the Cedar River center gives classes a field destination. The most hands-on offerings, the watershed field trips and Salmon in the Schools, are reserved for schools within the Seattle service area and fill up, so plan well ahead.

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