N.J.'s 2006 Fish Art and Writing Contest

Elementary and Middle School science teachers take note: The 2006 Fish
Art and Writing Contest information is now posted on the Division of
Fish and Wildlife website. Your students in grades 4 - 8 can learn about
NJ's fish while honing their artistic skills. The division's website
also has lots of online resources that your students can search to learn
about NJ's fish as they do the research for the biography piece. Please
feel free to share this contest with your school's art and language arts
teachers for this interdisciplinary activity.

The Aquatic WILD activity "Fishy Who's Who" can be used to introduce the
contest to students. The activities done through the contest help meet
NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards for Science 5.5 (Grade 4) A.1,
(Grade 6) B.1, (Grade 8) B.1, B.2, B.3, and Science 5.10 (Grade 6), A.1.

The winning entrants in each grade are invited to the Pequest Trout
Hatchery and Natural Resource Education Center in Oxford (along with
their immediate family and their teacher!) to fish at the education pond
on Opening Day of Trout Season, 2006 and to receive their awards at a
special luncheon. The contest is sponsored by NJ chapters of Trout
Unlimited.

For more information, see http://www.njfishandwildlife.com/fishart.htm