Montessori Middle School-New for 2010-2011

Amy,

Great to hear from you today and I'm looking forward to meeting you in person. The Trout in the Classroom brochure and application are attached.

One of the main things we try to accomplish in the classroom with TIC is to help the students begin to think like scientists. Usually students only answer questions others ask, but real scientists ask questions no one else is willing to ask. With an aquarium to act as their laboratory for testing the water to discover the nitrogen cycle, temperature and oxygen content, seeing trout develop from eggs to fry to fingerlings in the trout life cycle, understanding how trout and the invertebrates they feed on are an indicator of water quality, and learning about how urban populations are connected to and dependent upon their local watersheds, helps them begin to ask the right questions about our environmental stewardship of this planet we call earth. Someone said, "We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." After all, the students are our future.

Thanks,

Don