Fishing in your classroom
Not a lesson on how to fish. A way into Quebec through its waters, its fish, its history and its nature — with material you can open in front of a class today.
209
species, real photos
3,736
water bodies
465
official rules
25
fish to colour
Open it in class today
This part is not a plan. It exists, it is free, and a pupil needs no account to use it.
- Interactive boardWhat is a fin for, and where is it?Click the 14 parts of a fish, then switch to “Name it”. Sources from Fisheries and Oceans Canada.Open →
- Interactive boardLake, river, brook: what is the difference?Follow a drop from the mountain to the sea. Official definitions from the Commission de toponymie.Open →
209 species sheets
Every one with a real photograph — not a drawing, not an illustration. Habitat, size, diet, where it lives.
Open →3,736 water bodies
Lakes and rivers on a map, by region and by fishing zone. Useful for geography as much as for fishing.
Open →Five games, no account
Quiz, jigsaw, rhythm game, and a colouring book of 25 fish — each one ends with a short true story about the species.
Open →465 official rules
Seasons and catch limits straight from the province’s own register, searchable by zone and species.
Open →
Which subjects it touches
Science and technology
Anatomy, food chains, habitats, water quality.
Social studies
First Nations, New France, how a territory was settled.
Mathematics
Measuring, comparing, reading a table or a graph.
French
Reading a factual sheet, naming, describing, arguing.
⚠ These are the subjects the material naturally touches. Nothing here has yet been validated against the Quebec Education Program, so we do not claim it is aligned with it. That validation, cycle by cycle, is the next step.
The twelve modules ahead
None of these is written yet. They are the plan, published here so a teacher can tell us which one would be worth building first.
- 01
Where fishing comes from
First Nations, New France, how techniques evolved.
- 02
Quebec’s fish
Species, colours, sizes, diet.
- 03
How fish live
Breathing, fins, reproduction, growth.
- 04
Aquatic ecosystems
Food chains, habitats, natural balance.
- 05
Quebec’s lakes and rivers
The St. Lawrence, watersheds, geography.
- 06
Protecting our fish
Pollution, invasive species, conservation.
- 07
Discovering sport fishing
Rod, reel, lures, safety, responsible fishing.
- 08
Fish mysteries
Do they sleep? See in the dark? Survive winter?
- 09
The maths of fishing
Measure, compare, read a graph.
- 10
Fishing through the seasons
Migrations, behaviour, ice fishing.
- 11
Careers on the water
Biologist, warden, researcher, fish farmer.
- 12
Mission: lake guardians
Final project — build and run a Quebec lake.
One note on module 01. The part about First Nations fishing will not be written from a desk: it calls for material developed with the communities concerned, and it will wait until that is possible. Writing it any other way would be worse than not writing it.
You teach? Tell us what you need.
Which cycle, how long an activity lasts, what you would actually open in front of a class. That answer decides what gets built next — we would rather build one module a teacher asked for than twelve nobody uses.
Free, no advertising aimed at pupils, no account required to play. · Programs like Pêche en herbe exist