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Herring handbook

Students quest their way through an interactive notebook, following the small-in-size, but large-in-school herring through every stage of its life and migration journey.

Interactive 7 min interactive
45 min activity
45 min activity

Food web challenge: Students explore what a keystone species is by creating a food web for each stage of the herring life cycle.

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Thanks to

PARTNERS

  • Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department
  • Dalhousie University
  • Fisheries and Oceans Canada
  • Ocean Frontier Institute

Credits

SCRIPT

Sonya Lee, Erika Sullivan, Emily Sheepy

PRODUCTION - VIDEO

Scott Simpson

PRODUCTION - EDUCATION

Erika Sullivan, Heather DeLagran, Emily Sheepy,

PRODUCTION - SCIENCE

Sonya Lee

INTERACTIVE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

Erika Sullivan

ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Nick Hawkins

MOTION GRAPHICS

Devon Parsons / Pixel Ease

ILLUSTRATION

Erika Sullivan

ADDITIONAL ANIMATION

3D model "Herring" by Amy Scott-Murray CC BY 4.0

ACTIVITY WRITERS

Heather Delagran, Erika Sullivan, Sonya Lee, Emily Sheepy

ACTIVITY GRAPHIC DESIGN

Erika Sullivan, Nada Jreidini

ACTIVITY ILLUSTRATION

Erika Sullivan

ACTIVITY VALIDATION

Ayla Brown

TRANSLATION

Jessica Hould-Fortin, Michèle Banks, Laurence Savage-Duguay

PEDAGOGICAL ADVISORS

Ayla Brown, Anita Hall, Dawn Hall, Leandria Carpenter, Johanna Gordon-Walker