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FRESHWATER FISH MODULE CONTENTS

Book Box
BOOKS/BOOKLETS/VISUAL AIDS
-10 Fishes of the French Creek Watershed by Laura Wies (orange, spiral bound booklet)
-10 Pennsylvania Fishes by PA Fish and Boat Commission (blue & green book)
-1 Identification Guide to Pennsylvania Fishes by Clark Shiffer (white & green book)
-6 Freshwater Fishes(Peterson Field Guide) by Page and Burr (green or white book)
-20 Pennsylvania Fishes Identification Guide Pamphlets by PA Fish and Boat Commission
-1 Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of North America by A.J. McClane (blue book)

Cardboard Box
-Yellow Perch Anatomy Mount
-Fish Life Cycle Mount

Posters (Rolled In Blue Tube)
- Pennsylvania Fish Commission Poster Series of Fish (5 posters)
- PA's Threatened and Endangered Fishes (5 color copies)

Posters (Laminated)
-Pond and Stream Study Guide

Main Box
ACTIVITY ENVELOPES
Fishy Who's Who; Fish Food; Fishy Adaptations, Dead Yellow Perch Parts, Fishy Freeze Tag; Hide and Seek; Fighting for Life in French Creek; Hooks and Ladders, Finding the Way Home; How Old is That Fish; When the Oxygen is Gone; Create a Winter Pond

SMALL TUPPERWARE CASE
-Fish scale slides, preserved fish scales, new micro. slides & cover slips

CLEAR BOX
-2 stop watches
-whistles
-3 boxes poker chips (100 chips per box)
-white rope
-3x5 index cards

OTHER
-6 Clear bowls with blue lids (4 cup size)
-2 Brock Scopes
-6 Yellow field markers (16 oz size)
-4 Red field markers (16 oz size)
-4 Fish Identification Matching Games (orange posterboard with velcro) (click here for on-line version)
-External Fish Anatomy Poster Game (orange posterboard with fish illustration rolled up)
-Internal Fish Anatomy Poster Game (orange posterboard with fish illustration)
-6 Creek Cross Section Posters (white posterboard rolled up together)

Fishy Who's Who
· An identification activity. Students research fish and present their data to the class, includes a creek cross-section and a Fishy Quiz on color overheads.

Fish Food
· Make an aquatic food web with people and string.

Fishy Adaptations
· Studying the physical adaptations of fish to their environments.

Dead Yellow Perch Parts
· A fill-in the blank worksheet matching clues to parts of a perch's anatomy.

Fishy Freeze Tag
· Students play a game of freeze tag to illustrate predator/prey relationships.

Hide and Seek
· A game of hide & seek to simulate searching for camouflaged prey and the ability to navigate in turbid water.

Fighting for Life in French Creek
· Outdoor game simulating a fish's journey through French Creek.

Hooks and Ladders
· Students simulate the life cycle of steelhead trout and their migration patterns through an outdoor activity.

Finding the Way Home
· Students play a board game to simulate the seasonal migration of fish.

How Old Is That Fish
· Determining the age of a fish by examining fish scales.

When the Oxygen is Gone
· Examining how fish respond to a low oxygen environment.

Create a Winter Pond
· Students draw a mural of a creek or pond and its inhabitants during the winter.

Fish Faces
· An on-line game in which students match images of common Pennsylvania fish to their common names.

Sections

Fish Commission Info
Everything you need to know in order to get the proper fishing license(s) or educational field study permit as well as the PA Fish & Boat Commission's Education Resource Catalog and order forms.

Fact Sheets
Colorful, concise, and reproducible information and worksheets from the PA Fish & Boat Commission on general types of fish, fish anatomy, senses, reproduction, and habitat, threatened and endangered fish and fishing.

Articles of Interest
Selected articles on darters, muddlers, madtoms, salmon, brook trout, fish habitat and the connection between fish and wetlands.

General Activity Information
A list of module activities and an explanation of the activity format (layout). 

Activities
Specific to the freshwater fish theme, these activities include all the necessary background information for teachers to pick up the activity and do the lesson in their classrooms. 

Fish Websites

eNature Fish Identification

Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
PA Endangered Species