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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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| Lake Superior: A-L Learning Kit | free sample lesson | ||
| Grade level: K-3 | Date: 1992 | Program cost: $0.00 | |
| Description: This traveling kit contains activities and resources for discovery-based classroom activities focusing on Lake Superior. It introduces students to Lake Superior through lesson plans as well as suggested activities depicting aspects of the lake that relate to the letters A-L. | |||
| Lake Superior: M-Z Learning Kit | free sample lesson | ||
| Grade level: K-3 | Date: 1992 | Program cost: $0.00 | |
| Description: This traveling kit introduces students to Lake Superior through lesson plans as well as suggested activities depicting aspects of the lake that relate to the letters M-Z. | |||
| LAKERS Observe Coastweeks | free sample lesson | ||
| Grade level: 6-8 | Date: 1997 | Program cost: $0.00 | |
| Description: An active, discovery-based program, part new, part obtained from a number of other Ohio Sea Grant materials, which is designed to link middle school students with Coastweeks, an international beach clean-up program held in the early Fall. | |||
| Life in the Great Lakes | free sample lesson | ||
| Grade level: 7-12 | Date: 1997 | Program cost: $8.00 | |
| Description: One of a series of subject area activity books related to the Great Lakes based on Earth Systems Education. This program covers organisms living in the Great Lakes, ecological relationships, wetlands and critical habitats, and estuary changes and values. | |||
| Project FISH | free sample lesson | ||
| Grade level: 3-8 | Date: 2000 | Program cost: $0.00 | |
| Description: A 4-H Fishing Curriculum developed for Michigan and the Great Lakes in particular. It contains sections on aquatic ecology, people and fish, angling skills, tackle crafting and meal preparation. | |||