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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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| Purple Loosestrife Project - Upper Elementary | free sample lesson | ||
| Grade level: 4-6 | Date: 1999 | Program cost: $0.00 | |
| Description: This elementary version of the Purple Loosestrife Project focuses on raising beetles as a biological control agent for purple loosestrife. It provides enough background information and activities to be an introductory study in botany, ecology and insect life cycles. | |||
| Purple Loosestrife Project 9-12 | free sample lesson | ||
| Grade level: 9-12 | Date: 1999 | Program cost: $0.00 | |
| Description: This program gives students a practical application of invasive species management focusing on purple loosestrife. Students assess the plant diversity in an infested wetland, raise and apply beetles in a marsh as a control agent, and monitor the results. | |||
| Supplemental Curriculum Activities: Paddle-to-the-Sea | free sample lesson | ||
| Grade level: 3-6 | Date: 1988 | Program cost: $10.00 | |
| Description: Activities designed to reinforce and extend the experiences and understanding provided by this well-known and well-loved story. Interdisciplinary activity topics relate directly to the adventures of characters in the story, and provide students with a variety of hands-on experiences. | |||
| The Great Lake Superior Learning Kit | free sample lesson | ||
| Grade level: 3-6 | Date: 1992 | Program cost: $0.00 | |
| Description: A traveling kit containing activities and resources for discovery-based classroom activities focusing on Lake Superior concepts and issues: world fresh/salt water comparison; cooperative stewardship; biomagnification and bioacccumulation in food chains; watersheds; and animal adaptations. | |||
| The Lake Superior Game | free sample lesson | ||
| Grade level: 5-12 | Date: 2003 | Program cost: $2.50 | |
| Description: This is a role-play activity where learners assume the roles of various Lake Superior stakeholders and make decisions to either pollute or protect the lake, thus experiencing the challenges of preserving and enhancing the Lake Superior ecosystem. | |||