Trout Unlimited’s “Trout in the Classroom” program is a nationwide program designed to connect students with their watersheds. Students in grades 3 – 12 raise trout from eggs to fingerlings and then release them into a state-approved cold water stream or lake. For more information on the program, its background, resources and help, please visit this website.

The Maryland “Trout in the Classroom” program has developed a partnership between The Mid-Atlantic Trout in the Classroom (MATIC) and the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The MATIC program is a voluntary effort started and originally supported by the Potomac-Patuxent Chapter of Trout Unlimited. DNR’s Aquatic Resource Education (ARE) Program provides background information on several trout species, lesson plans correlated to the Maryland State Curriculum and Environmental Literacy standards, and funding assistance for participants in the program.

For more information about The Maryland Chapter of Trout Unlimited and Trout in the Classroom please visit this website. On this site you will find Maryland specific resources, educational videos, Live fish cams, teacher resources and more.

If you are in need of financial assistance to obtain the required aquarium supplies and equipment, and/or bus or substitute reimbursement for your fish release, you may apply for financial support from the Aquatic Resource Education Program. Approval will be granted on a rolling basis. The form will close on its deadline. Applicants will be notified of their status as soon as possible.

Please Note:
Completing this funding request form does not register you for the program. You must register with Trout Unlimited. Read below.

Have you completed a Memorandum of Intent (MOI) with Trout Unlimited? If not, please make sure you contact Trout Unlimited (TU) at tomgiann@verizon.net AND/OR aburrows53@gmail.com. You should not complete this form if you have not done so.

The Funding request form is open as of February 21st, 2025. Deadline to apply is May 15th, 2025 for the 2025-2026 school year.

Funding Request Form

Getting to Know Your Trout

 

• Brook trout
• Brown trout
• Rainbow trout
• Cutthroat trout

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Lessons for Your Classroom

 

Lessons

• Fish Clues
• Home for a Trout
• Insides and Outsides
• Student Worksheet
• Teacher Worksheet
• Is It a Trout?
• ​Trout Anatomy
• Trout Anatomy - Student Worksheet
• Trout Anatomy - Worksheet Answers
• Lake Waterford Fish Kill
• Nature or Nurture
• Trout to Die For
• ​Trout vs. Aliens

Forms

 

Click Below to Download

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• W-9 Form
• Sample Invoice
  

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Contact

Chelsea Kenworthy
Aquatic Resources Education
Chesapeake and Coastal Service
MD Department of Natural Resources
580 Taylor Ave., E-2
Annapolis, MD 21401
​Chelsea.Kenworthy@maryland.gov

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