Brooke Teller, the district's PreK-Grade 12 science coordinator, shared the following elementary school science update:

PPS third graders are continuing their Wabanaki Studies/Life Science unit with a study of Atlantic salmon. On March 6, each elementary school received 200 endangered Atlantic salmon eggs to raise for the next 6-8 weeks. After this time, the fry will be released into a tributary of the Androscoggin River, which is the "home" river for the hatchery supplying the eggs this year. In the fall, students learned about the impact that dams can have on rivers, including being a barrier to the life cycle of sea-run fish like salmon and alewives. This project allows them to be part of the restoration of this endangered species. This is the third year that PPS third-graders have raised salmon eggs to learn about river ecology.