A group of students, including Neto, went over to Casa Grande High School to learn about their unique fish hatchery because it went along with some of our projects. The picture shown above is only one of the sections that describes their timeline and progress of this hatchery. They are the first hatchery to open up in a high school throughout the world. They have their experiences and initial start on the river they document all along this wall and keep it clean constantly.
The fish they were working with when we came were Steel Head Trout. They are all cooped up into the corner here because they do not like light; too much light and loud noises can actually kill them. They are kept in this water so they can be monitored until they are big enough to be fed food.
This is a panoramic view of the Steel Head Trout as they get older. This is what the students and teachers of this program have to document and take care of throughout the year.
Bodega Bay:
Our entire class, including Neto and Tucker, went out to the Bodega Bay Research Center to learn more about what they really do for our ocean since it had direct correlations to a lot of our unit projects. Once we got there, we were split up into different groups and had a tour guide. For my group, our man, Roger Patton, led us around their entire facility and explained the importance of keeping the ocean clean. He went into depth on the future possibilities of the ocean's health is the carbon dioxide levels continue to increase along with the ocean's acidification.
They kept their species separated in these big buckets that were continuously refilled with water so they could thrive like they would in the ocean. There were crabs, different kinds of starfish, urchins, fish, and other organisms from the ocean.
Overall, both of these field trips were very influential and beneficial because I learned a lot more than I would have if I had simply read about it on the internet.
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