Celebrate Our Salmon
October 2023
Celebrate the return home of sockeye salmon after a 6000 kilometre journey to the ocean and back. The program explores the sockeye salmon life cycle and challenges as fish travel through different habitats, as well as efforts to restore salmon spawning habitat in Oliver. The 1.5 hour program is tied to the new science curriculum. Schools have the choice of visiting the Okanagan River Restoration Initiative site in the Osoyoos Oxbows or the fish ladder at the north end of the Penticton channel.
Grades: K to 4
Max. Size: 36 students
Cost: $85 per program
Please note: Schools must arrange for and provide their own transportation
COVID safety protocols: Presenters will be masked at all times. Presenters will remain physically distanced from students and teachers and all physical specimens will be handled exclusively by presenters. Program is entirely outside.


