Princeton Montessori School’s baby trout are ready for the great outdoors!

Since October, Middle School students have been raising trout in the classroom. The trout arrived in the “eyed-egg” stage from Pequest Hatchery in October.
 
PRINCETON, N.J. - April 22, 2013 - PRLog -- Students have been responsible for testing the water quality, calibrating water temperature, and measuring growth.  After months of careful tending, the fish are now in the fingerling stage. In late May, the students will release the grown trout into a section of the Raritan River called the Middle Brook Stream, located in Bridgewater Township.

This is the first year Princeton Montessori School has participated in the Trout in the Classroom program. Science teacher Lisa Stolzer has been instrumental in implementing the program and has integrated it into her biology and ecology classes by teaching about the life cycle of trout and impacts of human activity on water quality. There are many benefits to this type of real-life learning. As Stolzer says, “Science classes are often about theory and modeling, but this project is so hands-on that the students have a real life experience with the full cycle of a living creature. It builds compassion in the students as well as stressing the importance of our stewardship of the natural world.”

Trout in the Classroom is a program developed and supported by the NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife. Over 600,000 trout are raised by volunteers at the Pequest Hatchery in Hackettstown, Warren County, and the eggs are then sent to schools that participate in the Trout in the Classroom program.
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