The Environmental Science Center has been turning south King County students into environmental stewards through their hands-on field study program, Salmon Heroes, for more than a decade.
Last year the program expanded to Renton and Kent districts. ESC naturalists visit the classroom afterward to review water quality results and discuss how the class can make a difference for the threatened fish of our region. Students receive an official Salmon Heroes card after taking a pledge to protect wild salmon populations.
Highlands Elementary School fourth graders had their turn testing water quality testing, touring salmon habitat, identifying the organs in a salmon cadaver, drawing a salmon and its adaptations, reviewing salmon life cycles with models, identifying watershed characteristics, and playing a class game of survival Tuesday at the Cedar River.
