This three-part lesson integrates reading, language arts and math to help students acquire knowledge of different species of salmonids. In Part 1 students partner read and fill out a chart that requires them to abstract specific information. Secondly, students make a bar graph from information obtained in the initial reading lesson.

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1. Living things have physical characteristics that allow them to survive. They use these characteristics to meet their basic needs for food, water, air, protective shelter and reproduction. Knowing what animals do to survive allows one to make predictions about their characteristics.

2. A habitat is a place where an animal or plant lives while meeting its needs.

3. Cycles are changes that occur in a pattern.