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We have built a toolkit that you can download with games, tools and activities for kids aged 5-12. There’s a lot to choose from so you can pick and choose the activities that sound the most fun or that make the most sense for your club or class. We have also curated additional salmon resource links from partners across BC.

1) Salmon Toolkit (with a sample Explorer Day template and “how-to” descriptions for various demonstration tools)
2) Life Cycle Flash Cards
3) Links to local Salmon viewing, hatcheries, and conservation groups
4) SalmonWILD magazine with articles and stories about salmon

Salmon Migration games (Hooks and Ladders,
ScienceWorld’s Salmon Migration Obstacle course)
NOAA Salmon Survival board game
Salmon Life Cycle Stages Rock-Paper-Scissors Game
Salmon Art activities
Smell Your Way Home Activity
Internal and External Salmon Anatomy Diagrams (male & female versions from Pacific Salmon Foundation)
Salmon Facts
Salmon Related Book List
Colouring sheets from Pacific Salmon Foundation: salmon, otter, sea lion. And more from Pacific Streamkeepers Federation.
Salmon Vocabulary
Juvenile Pacific Salmon and Trout ID sheet
Survival Rate of Salmon / At what stage are salmon most fragile?

Check out these K-12 Educational Resources (at Stream to Sea from Fisheries and Oceans Canada )

NatureKids BC will be running Salmon Explorer Days through our family clubs across BC but you are also welcome to create your own event with your friends, family, or class.

We welcome questions and suggestions. Please contact us at info@naturekidsbc.ca. We’d also love to hear about your experience with these materials on social media – please tag us! Click here to follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

Thank you to Brenda Guiled for her beautiful salmon art.

We are very grateful to our supporters:

Welcome to our Salmon Toolkit and Resource page

We have built a toolkit that you can download with games, tools and activities for kids aged 5-12. There’s a lot to choose from so you can pick and choose the activities that sound the most fun or that make the most sense for your club or class. We have also curated additional salmon resource links from partners across BC.

DOWNLOAD THE TOOLKIT TO GET STARTED:
1) Salmon Toolkit (with a sample Explorer Day template and “how-to” descriptions for various demonstration tools)
2) Species Identification Cards (with marine and freshwater stages) from Department of Fisheries and Oceans
3) Life Cycle Flash Cards
4) Links to local Salmon viewing, hatcheries, and conservation groups
5) SalmonWILD magazine with articles and stories about salmon

Other activities, links and games:

• Salmon Migration games (Hooks and Ladders, ScienceWorld’s Salmon Migration Obstacle course)
• NOAA Salmon Survival board game
• Salmon Life Cycle Stages Rock-Paper-Scissors Game
• Salmon Art activities
• Smell Your Way Home Activity
• Internal and External Salmon Anatomy Diagrams (male & female versions from Pacific Salmon Foundation)
• Salmon Facts
• Salmon Related Book List
• Colouring sheets from Pacific Salmon Foundation: salmon, otter, sea lion. And more from Pacific Streamkeepers Federation.
• Salmon Vocabulary
• Juvenile Pacific Salmon and Trout ID sheet
• Survival Rate of Salmon / At what stage are salmon most fragile?
• Life Cycle of Pacific Salmon (DFO poster, challenges salmon face)

NatureKids BC will be running Salmon Explorer Days through our family clubs across BC but you are also welcome to create your own event with your friends, family, or class.

We welcome questions and suggestions. Please contact us at christina@naturekidsbc.ca. We’d also love to hear about your experience with these materials on social media – please tag us! Click here to follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

Thank you to Brenda Guiled for her beautiful salmon art.

We are very grateful to our supporters: