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        • Instructional Tyers
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      • Conservation Partners >
        • NC Camo Coalition
    • Diversity >
      • WOMEN ON THE FLY
      • BSA Merit Badge
    • We welcome your feedback!
    • Become a TU Member
    • Mission and Brief History
  • Calendar
  • FORR
  • Programs
    • Trout In The Classroom
    • RiverCourse Fly Fishing Youth Camp
    • Casting Carolinas
    • Wilson Creek Adopt-A-Stream and Stream Watch
    • South Mountain Adopt-A-Park
    • Stone Mountain State Park
  • Resources
    • Fly of the Month Patterns >
      • Dry Attractor >
        • Stealth Bomber
      • DRY FLY PATTERNS >
        • Adams Variant
        • Asher
        • Baigent's Variant
        • Blue Quill
        • BWO
        • BWO Catskill
        • BWO CDC Emerger
        • BWO Sparkle Dun
        • BWO Spinner
        • Carolina Wulff
        • CDC Biot Comparadun
        • CDL Comparadun
        • Coachman Variant
        • Crackleback
        • Dragonfly Dry
        • Dry Pheasant Tail Variant
        • Dun Fly, August Fly,Wasp Fly
        • Early Nelson
        • Egg Laying Caddis
        • Elk Hair Caddis
        • EZ Caddis
        • Female Adams
        • Fluttering Caddis
        • Gray Fox Variant
        • Griffith's Gnat
        • H & L Variant
        • Hopper Juan
        • Japanese Beetle
        • Jassid
        • Jim Charley
        • Klinkhamer
        • Lacewing
        • Light Cahill Catskill
        • Little Green and Little Yellow Stonefly
        • Mr. Rapidan
        • North Carolina Yellow Sally
        • Parachute Adams
        • Puff Diddy
        • October Caddis
        • Orange Forked Tail
        • Rattler
        • Red Headed Caddis
        • Smoky Mountian Candy
        • Trude
        • Rusty Spinner
        • Sulphurs Part 1
        • Sulphur Part 2
        • Yellow Palmer
      • Midges >
        • Grey Goose Midge Emerger
        • Morgan's Midge
      • Nymphs >
        • Brassie
        • Chironimid
        • Copper John
        • Crossover Nymph
        • Crow Fly
        • Damsel Fly Nymph
        • Deep Sparkle Caddis Pupa
        • Devil's Doorstop
        • Girdle Bug
        • Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear
        • Hot Creek Special
        • Mr. Rapidan
        • Peridgon Nymph
        • Realistic Stonefly
        • Royal Prince
        • Scud
        • Egan's Tasmanian Devil
        • Tups Indespensible
      • Scud >
        • UV Scud
      • Soft Hackles >
        • Center Bead Soft Hackle
        • Orange Partridge Soft Hackle
    • Fly Patterns
    • RRTU Class Recipes
    • NC General Hatch Charts
    • Fly Shops, Outfitters and Guides
    • Fly Fishing >
      • RRTU Reference Fly Tying >
        • Entomology Basics
        • More Entomology Basics
      • More Fly Fishing Basics
      • Fly Fishing Tips
      • Trout Fishing & Trout Fishing Stories
    • Fly Casting
    • History, Reading, References >
      • S. Appalachian & Smoky Mtn History >
        • Archive History >
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            • FORR 2020
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TROUT IN THE CLASSROOM

Trout in the Classroom (TIC) is a hands-on environmental education program in which students grades K - 12:
  • Raise trout from eggs to fingerlings 
  • Monitor tank water quality 
  • Engage in stream habitat study
  • Learn to appreciate water resources
  • Begin to embrace a conservation ethic
  • Develop an understanding of ecosystems

​RRTU volunteers set up 55-gallon tanks in August, deliver trout eggs to the schools in September and work with the teachers to provide optimal water quality at 55 degrees F for the fish. Students learn how to perform tests for pH, ammonia, nitrate and nitrates., maintaining logs that chronicle the results of those tests and the condition of the trout on a daily basis. The teachers tailor the program to fit their curricular requirements: therefore, each program is unique. In May interested students from each school go on field trips to either South Mountains State Park of Stone Mountain State Park to release their fish and gain first-hand knowledge about what it takes for trout to survive in the wild.

The long-term goal of the TIC Program is to educate an increasingly urbanized population of youth about water quality and conservation and to reconnect them to the systems of streams, rivers and watersheds that sustain us all.

 “Creating Excitement in Education”
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Trout in the Classroom brings nature into the classroom and allows students to develop a personal bond and sense of the conservation ethics that are at the core of Trout Unlimited's mission.

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​TIC Update 2023

The TIC Program has rebounded from the Covid shutdown to partner with 22 schools in the Charlotte, Fort Mill, Gastonia, Lincolnton, Concord and Davidson area. 
TIC Schools for 2022-23
    6 Private Schools
16 Public Schools

            - 6 Title I Schools
                - 3 Charter Schools 
                           - 7 Regular Public Schools

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 10 ​Lower Schools
9 Middle Schools
3 Upper Schools
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Basics of Water Quality
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  What our teachers say about TIC:

"I thin
k every school should have one of these. It's such a fun and educational program, I don't see why you wouldn't want to be a part of something so great."  
                              - 4th Grade Teacher

​ "Gives me the opportunity to show the student life cycles right in front of their eyes."
​              - 8th Grade Science Teacher

​"We incorporate math, art, writing, ...it's endless... we even started a blog so the students can blog about the fish."    
​                              - 7-8 Grade Teacher



Online Classroom Lesson Plans
Become a TIC Volunteer

For More Information, contact:

Dana Hershey
704-577-7700
hersheycd@gmail.com
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Bill Thomas
704-321-4792
bill.thomas1999@gmail.com

Charlie Campbell

704-689-3196
charliecampbell@hotmail.com 
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