Hello, today we're going to go on a
journey and while we go on this journey,
we're going to tell you a
story as we tell this story.
We want you to draw 2 pictures
will let you know when it's time
to switch to the second picture.
We will also let you know when you
can pause the video if you need
more time to work on the activities.
Does everyone have some drawing supplies?
Good. As we begin telling our story,
we want you to start your first drawing.
As we tell the story,
draw the environment that you here described.
Our story starts with a river,
the river I spawned in will always
hold a special place in my heart.
I'm a steelhead and I want to tell you
about this wonderful river that many
generations of my family spawned at,
like all good spawning spots,
this river is fresh and cool,
with plenty of oxygen.
I love feeling the water flow
through my gills.
There are plenty of branches and rocks
which create pools where the current.
This load these branches and rocks
give me plenty of places to hide out.
The ground is covered in gravel
and there isn't too much silt.
After the eggs are deposited and we hatch,
we young steelhead spend about a year
in the stream growing up and getting
strong enough to make it in the ocean.
The time spent growing up in this stream
will leave a profound impact on all of us.
As adults,
we will always migrate from the
ocean to the same spot we spawned
from the river is clear and as we
play I can see the sun glinting off
of the scales of the other fish.
Mostly our skills are olive in color
are undersides, are a silvery white.
And our whole bodies are covered
in speckles with a pink stripe
running down our sides.
When we get hungry,
we find bugs to snack on the healthy
river ecosystem has a whole variety
for us to choose from each day.
A steelhead try to find the
biggest and juiciest bugs to eat.
Times like this make me feel especially
grateful for this wonderful river.
Each time when we left the river
to make the long trek to the ocean,
we left with the comfort that it would
always be here to greet us again.
If you need more time to finish your drawing,
pause the video right here.
Now we want you to switch
to your second drawing.
Set aside your first one,
because we'll come back to it.
Like the first drawing continued
to illustrate the environment
that you hear described overtime,
the river had changed one year,
returning to the river didn't feel the same.
It felt more sluggish and clogged
and everything felt warm.
There were these weird new plants
that I had never seen before,
and they were all over the place.
We set off to try and find
the biggest bugs to eat,
but something was terribly wrong.
The other fish and I could hardly
find any frogs or dragon flies to eat.
Even the mayflies were scarce.
I was starting to get really hungry.
Why was it so hard to find food?
Me and some other fish set off
to try to figure out why our
river felt so different.
As I looked around at my fellow fish,
I also noticed that there were much
fewer of us than I expected to see.
As we swam through the branches and
streams that we had known our whole lives,
we got stuck. Parts of the
waterway were completely dried up.
What could have caused this?
Another fish told me that they had
heard a rumor that humans were taking
the water to use in other places,
but that didn't really make any sense to me.
There was more dirt mixed
throughout the water.
The lovely gravel that I had
hatched in was full of silt,
shiny patches of oil covered the water,
flashing and glittering in
place of steelhead scales.
For the first time in my life,
I didn't really like peeing in the river.
It was too warm, too dirty,
and the level of water just wasn't right.
But I don't know anywhere else to go.
So I guess this is just what it's like now.
Hopefully some future fish that I
spawn gets to experience the river
that I knew when I was a fry.
If you need more time to
finish your second drawing,
pause the video here.
Now let's look at our pictures
and answer a few questions.
Turn to a neighbor.
We will go over the questions.
We want you to answer,
and then we'll have you pause the video
on a screen that includes the questions.
Look at both of your drawings.
Compare and contrast the
1st and 2nd drawings.
What made the environment in the
first picture good for the steelhead?
Why do you think the stream water got warmer?
What do you think we could do to get the
environment back to the first image?
Pause now?
Thank you, students, for listening
and participating in our activities.
We hope you have a good day.