Trout in the Classroom- Released!

Submitted by Lori Saylor, Teacher,
Windsor Knolls Middle School
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The students in Mrs. Saylor’s’ middle school classroom at Windsor Knolls Middle School raised over 100 rainbow trout this season. This is the fourth year that the students from this school have participated in a national program from Trout Unlimited called Trout in the Classroom. Mrs. Saylor and her students worked with the Department of Natural Resources as well as the Potomac Valley Fly Fishing Club (PVFF) to raise these fish from egg to fingerlings. Student set up the tank, temper the eggs when they arrive from Canada, and then monitor the water and the health of the fish for about 4 months. In early May students release the trout into a designated stream. The Department of Natural Resources not only provides the school with a permit to raise the trout but they also decide where the fish would be most beneficial and they provide a stocking permit. For the past two years the trout were released in the upper Carroll Creek restoration area just off of Montvue Avenue. The program is very successful and from an environmental point of view it gets students to understand the importance of cold water conservation and the health of local waterways. The students become the stewards of the waterways.  

Please follow the image link below to a video montage of Mrs. Saylor’s classes’ Trout in the Classroom experience!