Dams
Dam Vocabulary
Field Trip
At the movies
Salmon 1
Salmon 2
Field Trip Stations
McGee Trivia
Classroom Numbers
Club Advisers & Coaches
100
A dam here in town.
What is Railroad Pond?
OR
What is Papergoods Pond?
100
A barrier constructed to hold back water and raise its level.
What is a dam?
100
The period by which most of the 7A students were organized for the trip.
What is Period C?
100
A movie featuring a clownfish.
What is Finding Nemo?
100
Necessary to provide a plentiful supply of oxygen to allow salmon eggs to develop.
What are clean flowing streams?
100
The length of time after the first year of life that a salmon will stay in the river before beginning its journey in the ocean.
What is one to three years?
100
The station where you name something.
What is the Release Station?
100
When McGee was first opened.
What is 1969?
100
The room number for the bandroom.
What is 101?
100
The yearbook advisers.
Who are Mrs. Peterson and Miss Cardines?
200
Four reasons why dams were built.
What are:
To provide motive force?
To provide water for trains?
To conserve water for drinking?
To control flooding?
200
The term for a fish that can survive in both freshwater and salt water.
What is anadromous?
200
The station in which you caught juvenile insects.
What is the Aquatic Invertebrates Station?
200
An unrealistic 1978 horror movie franchise that featured carnivorous fish that hunt in schools.
What is Piranha?
200
Black dots visible through the egg membrane.
What are eyes?
200
The term for salmon that have emerged from the gravel that they have been hiding in.
What are fry?
200
The station where you explore how animals fit into their environment.
What is the Adaptation Station?
200
This 7th grade teacher actually runs several miles a day.
Who is Mr. Crean?
200
Mr. Holland's room.
What is 202?
200
The head coach for Girls Track.
Who is Mr. Keefe?
300
Five specific ways that dams harm salmon.
What are:
They prevent salmon from reaching their breeding ground.
They prevent salmon from going downstream.
A hydro station over-oxygenates water.
Changes water temperature.
Changes the bottom of a river or stream.
300
The term for an animal (or coconut) that moves from one region to another according to calendar or season.
What is migratory?
300
The approximate number of Atlantic salmon that will survive to return.
What is one to three?
300
A misnamed 2004 film about a fish who is mistakenly believed to have murdered the son of a shark mob boss.
What is Shark Tale?
300
The correct term for a newly hatched salmon.
What are alevin?
300
The term for a salmon that is ready to or is migrating to its feeding ground.
What is a smolt?
300
The station where your guide helps you to appreciate growing things in the world around you.
What is the Nature Walk?
300
Mr. Urso's job before he became an administrator.
What is a science teacher?
300
The room number for Mrs. Orabi.
What is 228?
300
The Creative Lego Club adviser.
Who is Ms. Thienley?
400
The year the first dam completely blocked the main stem of the Connecticut River.
When is 1798?
400
The term for the main part of a river.
What is a stem?
400
How salmon find their way to their original home.
What is smell?
400
One of Ariel's closest friends (not the crab).
Who is Flounder?
400
The correct term for a salmon that is between one and three years old, and which less than 10cm in total length.
What is a parr?
400
Obstacles that make it difficult for salmon to return to the river of their hatching.
What are dams and waterfalls?
400
Bugs. More bugs! Lots of bugs!
What is the Aquatic Invertebrates Station?
400
This 7th grade teacher is or was an assistant coach with the Cross Country team.
Who is Mr. Dix?
OR
Who is Mr. Cormack?
400
Mrs. Mahaffy's room number.
What is 223?
400
The Chess Club adviser.
Who is Mr. Beaupre?
500
The first dam to completely block the main channel of the Connecticut River.
What is the Holyoke Dam?
500
The term for a waterway that terminates (ends) in a larger waterway or river.
What is a tributary?
500
The number of permanent restrooms at Salmon River State Recreation Area.
What is two?
500
A 1979 Stephen Spielberg film that features the line "I think you're going to need a bigger boat."
What is Jaws?
500
One to three.
About how many times will a salmon make its journey to spawn in the river of its hatching?
500
An animal often mistaken for salmon.
What is a trout?
500
You do a lot of mucking around in water at this station.
What is the Aquatic Invertebrates Station?
500
Although not a percussionist, this teacher played drums in marching band in college.
Who is Mrs. Terlecky?
OR
Who is Mr. Cormack?
500
Mrs. McCorkel's room.
What is 106?
500
The head wrestling coach.
Who is Mr. Dix?
600
A Connecticut state agency tasked with protecting the environment.
What is the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection?
OR (it's old name)
What is the Department of Environmental Protection?
600
Generating electricity through use of moving water.
What is hydroelectric?
600
The town in which Salmon River State Recreation Area is located.
What is East Hampton, CT?
600
A 2008 movie about a goldfish child that wants to be a boy.
What is Ponyo?
600
The term for a salmon that has spawned and is returning to its feeding ground.
What is a kelt?
600
Gravel
Where salmon eggs are hidden for safety.
600
An opportunity to test your agility.
What is the Obstacle Course?
600
The exploratory class that used classrooms 201 and 202 before there was a STEaM class.
What is Technology Education?
600
Mrs. St. Jarre's room number?
What is Lib-C?
600
The head coach for Cross Country.
Who is Mr. Griswold?
700
A national agency tasked with protecting wildlife.
What is the United States Fish and Wildlife Service?
700
The science term for the energy used to drive equipment.
What is motive power?
700
The organization that provided us with Atlantic Salmon eggs.
What is the Connecticut River Salmon Association?
700
A 2006 IMAX movie narrated by Johnny Depp that looks at various types of life in the ocean.
What is Deep Sea 3D?
700
The correct name for the process that prepares a salmon for life in saltwater.
What is smolting?
700
They dictate when a salmon will return to spawn in the river of its hatching.
What are hormones?
700
"99 bottles of milk on the wall, 99 bottles of milk..."
What is the bus ride?
700
This McGee teacher ran a half marathon (13.1 miles) on a broken foot.
Who is Mr. Plona?
700
The room number for the lecture hall closest to the office.
What is Lecture B?
700
The person who ran the Photography Club for 19 years.
Who is Mr. Cormack?