NYSDEC Region 1 Freshwater Fisheries I FISH NY Program Knot Tying rd Grade Level(s): 3 & up Time: 15 - 25 minutes NYS Learning Standards Group Size: 5 - 20 students Core Curriculum ELA Setting: Outdoors, or Indoors ELA Standard 1: Language for Information and Understanding Summary Students will: read, write, listen, and speak for A well tied knot can play a significant information and understanding. As listeners and role in helping a person catch a fish. In readers, students will collect data, facts, and ideas; this lesson, students will learn how to tie discover relationships, concepts, and a clinch knot and bait a hook. Depending generalizations; and use knowledge generated from on the level of the students, additional oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As fishing knots may be introduced. speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit Objectives information. • Key Idea 1: Listening and reading to acquire After this presentation, students will be information and understanding involves able to: collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering • Reproduce tying common fishing relationships, concepts, and generalizations; knots. and using knowledge from oral, written, and • Demonstrate how to bait a fish electronic sources. hook. Materials • 2 long wooden knot tying boards (6-8 ft long 2x4 in boards, with lag bold eyelets 1ft apart. • Cord • Knife • 8-10 shark hooks with tips cut off • 10-12 large bobbers • Large fishing rod • 3-4 laminated Knot Tying Cards or Handout • Markers • Clay • Clamps NYSDEC Region 1 Freshwater Fisheries 2013
[email protected] 631.444.0283 Page 1 NYSDEC Region 1 Freshwater Fisheries I FISH NY Program Vocabulary • Bend – a knot that ties a line or rope to a different line or rope, joining the two together.