THE NFSP PROGRAM
The “Fishing in Schools” team thanks you for your interest in the National Fishing in Schools Program. We hope it will prove to be a suitable and effective academic journey for your school or institution and its students.
We appreciate your anticipated commitment to educating your students about the skill and pastime of angling. Together, we have the responsibility to teach youth about our natural resources with hopes that they, too, will become advocates for their protection, thereby ensuring future generations may also enjoy the lifetime benefits of fishing and the environs in which they flourish.
STANDARDS COMPLIANT
NFSP lesson plans are standards-based, having followed SHAPE National Standards. They are presented as in-school curriculum, so that despite what Mother Nature has in store outdoors, students can still be learning this valuable outdoor skill, indoors, in their school gym.
Lesson plans were co-written by educators (including a National PE Teacher of the Year) and passionate lifelong anglers. Lessons are designed to be compliant with 4 core content standards: • Physical Education• Science• Language Arts• Technology
TWO COMPREHENSIVE CURRICULA• “Cast A Lure, Catch A Student”, features spincasting instruction
CALCAS Curriculum Outcome Objective
CALCAS Curriculum Kit Contents
• “Cast A Fly, Catch A Student”, is the fly fishing version
CAFCAS Curriculum Outcome Objectives
CAFCAS Curriculum Kit Contents
Both curricula are designed to be taught for 10 days and offer more than 10 lessons in each. The lessons are easy to use and administer while offering flexibility to the needs of the teacher. With assessments built in to every lesson (and quizzes along the way), tracking your students' learning and improvement is made easy.
Both curricula have Lessons Plans that are arranged in a practical progression for you and your students. The curricula is designed to be dynamic and implemented over a two week period. With the availability of differentiated resources, an added feature of each curriculum is the flexibility to adapt it to meet the individual needs of each instructor. Realizing the depth to the content, and that every class, time availability and instructor is different, we anticipated that all teachers may not be able to cover all the content in each lesson. However, the activities, worksheets, assessments, quizzes, etc., have been included to provide the opportunity to instruct using a well-rounded course, so each student is assured of learning. Our guiding intent is that each student gain an understanding of the fundamentals of how to fish and hopefully gain an appreciation for the sport leading to a lifetime of outdoor enjoyment. May you and your students have endless days of healthy enjoyment of the outdoors and fishing. Katie Dement, Director“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Both curricula have Lessons Plans that are arranged in a practical progression for you and your students. The curricula is designed to be dynamic and implemented over a two week period. With the availability of differentiated resources, an added feature of each curriculum is the flexibility to adapt it to meet the individual needs of each instructor. Realizing the depth to the content, and that every class, time availability and instructor is different, we anticipated that all teachers may not be able to cover all the content in each lesson. However, the activities, worksheets, assessments, quizzes, etc., have been included to provide the opportunity to instruct using a well-rounded course, so each student is assured of learning. Our guiding intent is that each student gain an understanding of the fundamentals of how to fish and hopefully gain an appreciation for the sport leading to a lifetime of outdoor enjoyment. May you and your students have endless days of healthy enjoyment of the outdoors and fishing. Katie Dement, Director“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”