Sarasota PE teacher teaching her students how to go fishing

One Sarasota physical teacher is teaching her students a sport they can use to live their best Florida life.

• Southside Elementary School PE teacher Jayda Morgan has been teaching her students a unit on fishing.
• Students learn how to cast, identify fish and check their size against size regulation charts.
• Students of all ages, including kindergarten, learn to fish.
• Morgan also teaches students a unit on camping and animal tracking identification.
• The teacher simulates the Gulf of Mexico outside with laminated pictures of fish that they catch because the fish and hooks have magnets.
• Students have to log anything they catch after checking the state's regulation chart.
  

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