BUILDING CLIMATE RESILIENCE: Stream Restoration Simulation

Last updated on
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
Experience type: 
In-Person
Program Description

In this engaging outreach program designed for students in grades K-3, children will explore the fascinating world of ecosystems and discover what contributes to their health or decline, while focusing on salmon habitats. They will gain an understanding of the essential needs of both plants and animals, as well as the adaptations these species have developed to thrive in their environments.

This program requires a large space, in a gymnasium or some other large open space.

Grades: K-3                          Length: 1 hour                Maximum group size: 30 students

Program Components:

  • Introduction to healthy salmon habitats and salmon life cycle.
  • Understand the need of plants and animals to help salmon thrive in their environments.
  • Discover adaptations salmon species have developed within different environments.

For more information, visit our website or email us. 

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Big Ideas
  • Plants and animals have observable features.
  • Living things have features and behaviours that help them survive in their environment.
  • Living things have life cycles adapted to their environment.
  • Water is essential to all living things, and it cycles through the environment.
  • Living things are diverse, can be grouped, and interact in their ecosystems.
  • Our rights, roles, and responsibilities are important for building strong communities.
  • We shape the local environment, and the local environment shapes who we are and how we live.
  • Local actions have global consequences, and global actions have local consequences.
  • COVID Precautions

    With the continued safety and well-being of our visitors, staff and volunteers the highest priority, we have developed a safety plan in accordance with WorkSafeBC guidelines. Our COVID-19 safety guide can be found on our website: https://fraserriverdiscovery.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/WORKSAFE-BC-... If you have any concerns about visiting the center that are not addressed in the safety plan, please email or call us and we can work together to make sure that your visit is a safe one.

    Trip Details
    For Grades: 
    K, 1, 2, 3
    Duration: 
    60 minutes unless otherwise stated.
    Maximum Students: 
    Offered In French: 
    No
    Also Offered For: 
    Daycamps, ESL, Guides, Homeschool, Other, Preschool, Scouts
    Packages Provided: 
    Both Pre-Visit and Post-Visit Packages
    Fee Details
    Cost Per Student: 
    $9.00
    Cost Per Adult: 
    $0.00
    Fee Notes: 

    Program fee is $9 + GST per student (minimum charge of $108.00 per booking) plus $0.90 per kilometre between FRDC and your school (both ways); group size between 12 to 30. Fees are due three weeks before the program booked date. Please contact us about delayed payment options.

    While at your school, we are happy to deliver the chosen program to multiple classes! Booking can be done as a group, but the program will be delivered one class at a time.

    We have an across the board 25% discount on all programs, outreach and kits for inner-city schools.