SNIS Ecology Club

SNIS Ecology Club is a collection of environmentally conscious 3rd, 4th and 5th graders looking to educate themselves about nature and how to protect it.

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Trout are released! Ecology Club from @SNIS_CT was able to set about 75 trout into their new home in the East Aspetuck at @PrattNature this afternoon with @GeetMrs Great job, everyone! Thanks for another great year of TIC, @cvtu!

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Are two heads better than one? One of our trout definitely thinks so! @GeetMrs @cvtu

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Our EcoRangers meeting all of the alevin, testing water quality and recording observations! @GeetMrs

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Hey @GeetMrs, we’re hatching!!

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A fantastic release! Thanks to all the Ecology Club kids and families that were able to come out to Pratt today and get our trout into the river. Well done! Our 180ish trout will enjoy their new home! #savingtheworld

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Today is the day! Release day! See everyone at 11.

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Growing trout don’t take a vacation even if we do! Getting closer to our release day, bigger every day.

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Illustrating how water moves from higher elevations to gather in rivers and lakes.

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Modeling the action of a watershed to build our understanding how they work and why protecting them is so important.

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We’re back! Recruiting the next generation of Trout Ambassador’s at the K-2 Family Science Night.

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SNIS Family Science Night was a huge success, congrats to all the participants! A huge thank you to all our volunteer Trout Ambassadors that helped out with our mobile trout tank and Ecology Club table- great job!

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Spent our afternoon mapping the quilt squares that are coming - from Alaska to Pennsylvania!

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Snow day’s are for prepping our TIC Quilt project squares for the mail. Still time to get them in for the Friday deadline!

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These trout are growing up fast! Learning how to test our tank water and continuing our observation records.

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Busy sketching our alevin and recording our observations of growth this week.

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We’re hatching already! These little alevin were out and about before the weekend. @TroutUnlimited @cvtu

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Shhh, don’t tell them but I slipped data collection, addition, rounding and estimation into saving the world this week as we worked together to get an accurate count of almost 800 trout eggs!

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It’s glorious Egg Day! We’re ready to save the world a little bit and take great care of these trout! @cvtu @TroutUnlimited

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And we’re off! Previewed what our trout program will be like and then we got dirty, weeding the SNIS garden beds! #dirtyhandsaregood

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Ecology Club has returned! Info was emailed home to all parents today. If you missed it, here’s the sign up link: https://t.co/fV6Ug7K6lH