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Strategic plan targets invasive species
The Superior Daily Telegram (11/17)
Douglas County’s Land Conservation Committee is forwarding a plan to the county board that takes aim at invasive species.
Mich. Clean Marina Program: Public-private partners work together to improve water quality
Grand Rapids Environmental News Examiner (11/9)
Partners from the public and private sector in Michigan are working together in a voluntary program to improve the quality of the Great Lakes.
Researchers seek funding for wind test site in Lake Michigan
Grand Rapids Environmental News Examiner (11/7)
In a recent article in The Muskegon Chronicle, it was reported that researchers at Grand Valley State University’s Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center (MAREC) cited a lack of year-around data (on wind platform testing) needed by prospective development companies.
COMMENTARY: Senate needs to pass clean energy act to help Michigan
The Grand Rapids Press (10/26)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was absolutely correct with his recent proclamation about the current condition of the Great Lakes State: "The State of Michigan," Reid declared from the Senate Floor, with a copy Time Magazine in his hand, "is in trouble."
First Nation women 'walk the environmental talk'
WeNews (10/23)
Tomorrow's global day of climate activism aims for media and political attention. First Nation women have another way. Since 2003, they've walked the shoreline of a Great Lake or major river, meditating on the needs of an unborn generation.
City making big push for water school
The Business Journal (10/23)
The push is on to convince the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that the best location for its new School of Freshwater Sciences is near the university’s existing Great Lakes Water Institute on East Greenfield Avenue.
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| Environmental Rediscoveries (Schoolship) | free sample lesson | |
| Grade level: 7 | Date: 2000 | Program cost: Free |
| Subjects: science, social studies | ||
Correlated to education standards? No
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Students have the opportunity to become "sailors and scientists" for a day, learning about the ecosystem of Presque Isle Bay, Lake Erie. On board, students operate sampling equipment, and then return shoreside to analyze their samples.
Students have the opportunity to become "sailors and scientists" for a day, learning about the ecosystem of Presque Isle Bay, Lake Erie, while also learning to sail aboard a 42-foot Friendship Sloop. On board, students operate a ponar dredge to collect bottom sediment and record the temperature, dissolved oxygen, conductivity and pH at various depths using a Hydrolab. Students return shoreside to analyze their samples, examine a sample taken from a shore-based plankton net and learn important lessons about water quality and pollution as well as the important role people play as stewards to their environment. An accompanying curriculum linked to state standards provides lesson plans related to the physics of sailing, watersheds, invasive species, mayflies, Presque Isle Bay and the Presque Isle AOC. There are excellent content sections, good diagrams and worksheets, but no direct connections between the curriculum and either the water quality tests or plankton sampling. Extensions are minimal, but some actions are suggested. A board game is also available as an assessment tool. Students navigate their way around Presque Isle Bay answering trivia questions in an attempt to collect more "life rings" than their opponents do. Note: no assessment could be made of on-board content delivered during the cruise.
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| Issue 1: Habitat |  | Key Characteristic 1: Accuracy |  | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 2: Pollution |  | Key Characteristic 2: Depth | | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 3: Invasives | | Key Characteristic 3: Skills |  | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 4: Ecosystem | | Key Characteristic 4: Action | | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 5: Biodiversity | | Key Characteristic 5: Soundness | | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 6: Build Fisheries | - | Key Characteristic 6: Usability | | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 7: Treaty Rights | - |
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| Issue 8: Manage Fisheries | | ||||||||||||||||
| Issue 9: Stewardship | - | ||||||||||||||||
| Issue 10: Fishing | | ||||||||||||||||
| Issue 11: Careers | - | ||||||||||||||||
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