The students sat in pairs under a picnic shelter at Vancouver Lake Park, each set poised before a small trout laid out on a piece of newspaper. It was dissection day, but these students got to be outside at a local park instead of inside their classroom. They were full of questions:
Why do they have a line across their body? That is their lateral line and helps them sense and “hear” things in the water.
Where did the fish come from? From a local fish farmer.
What happens to the fish after we’re done? They are composted to fertilize plants.
The students counted up each salmon’s fins (eight
