Educational Resources
Junior Biologist Workbook for Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail
If you’d like your students or kids to complete this workbook and earn a Junior Biologist sticker, please print it out ahead of time and bring with you.
Pre-Visit Handouts to Review
- Trail Etiquette
- Land Acknowledgement of the Squaxin Island Tribe
- Spawning Behavior Handout
- Spawning Behavior Handout (Spanish)
Pre-Visit Lessons/Resources
- Intro to Salmon at Kennedy Creek (3-minute video)
- Chum Salmon Spawning Behavior (4-minute video)
- Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail Virtual Tour (19-minute video)
- Salmon Life Cycle Lesson
- Salmon Life Cycle Lesson (Salmon in the Schools) (30-minute video) + Salmon Science Journal
- Salmon Life Cycle Guessing Game Cards
- theFrizzlives Salmon Life Cycle Song (4-minute video)
- SciShow Kids Salmon Life Cycle (5-minute video)
- Salmon Life Cycle Animation (6-minute video)
Post-Visit Lessons/Resources
- Salmon Food Web Lesson
- Hooks and Ladders Salmon Survival Game
- What is a Watershed Lesson (missing water cycle worksheet)
- Wet Watershed Activity (missing the What is a Watershed worksheet)
- Salmon Story Bracelets
- Local Pacific Salmon Species Lesson
- Keying Out Five of the Local Pacific Salmon Species
- Salmon Species Lesson (Salmon in the Schools) (23-minute video) + Salmon Science Journal
- Clean Water Kitsap Juvenile and Adult Salmon ID Posters
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada Juvenile Salmon Species Coloring Sheet
- Salmon Species Bookmarks (page 12 in Salmon Science Journal)
- Salmon Habitat Lesson (Salmon in the Schools) (35-minute video) + Salmon Science Journal
- Edible Salmon Habitat Activity
- Salmon Haiku Poem Lesson/Activity
- Trout Unlimited’s Salmon Survival Math Game
- Since Time Immemorial – Honoring the Salmon – Lesson 1
- Data on KC chum escapement numbers for students to use to make graphs…?
Equipment/Games/Resources Teachers Can Borrow
- Salmon puzzle
- Stream simulation table
- Battery-powered microscopes and stream bug ID kits (we can also lend you macroinvertebrate collection equipment)
- Silicone fish for Gyotaku printing (ink and rice paper not included)
Online Education Sources
Email Jessica Linkemyer at to borrow any materials.
Thank you!