River Herring: A Citizen Science Project
I was recently reading the March/April 2021 issue of \u201cScience Scope\u201d a publication of the National Science Teaching Association.\xa0In this issue, I read the section \u201cCitizen Science\u201d written by Jill Nugent.\xa0\xa0Jill wrote an article entitled \u201cThe Return of the River Herring.\u201d
The Mystic River Herring Education Project is an online citizen science project with a user-friendly website full of information and resources.\xa0\xa0To engage in the citizen science project, student will visit the project home page and watch short video clips of migrating river herring.\xa0\xa0They will count the number of river herring that they observe swimming from right to left on the screen.\xa0\xa0To learn more, visit: