Great Miami Watershed Network Meeting
DescriptionTrout in the Classroom is a national educational program promoted by Trout Unlimited. Ohio’s Madmen Chapter of Trout Unlimited sponsors Trout in the Classroom at Benjamin Logan High School, Bellefontaine, Ohio, one of 4 schools in Ohio studying trout growth and the first in the Mad River watershed. Working with Spencer Reames, an award winning science teacher at Ben Logan High, the Madmen purchased the equipment to get the program started while funds from the Ohio Environmental Education Fund grant, written by Mr. Reames, were coming in. The grant will be providing 3 aquariums for trout in their Elementary School, Middle School, and High School. The State of Ohio provided brown trout eggs and will monitor their release back into the Mad River. The presentation on establishing the aquarium and using trout in the classroom as a teaching aid for Biology and Ecology will be given by Spencer Reames and Don Dean, Director of Education and the Environment for the Madmen Chapter of TU.