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Investigating Crayfish and Freshwater Ecosystems, Lesson 9 Community Presentations and Engagement
Lesson Summary Students make presentations and/or create videos about their crayfish research project(s). In this way,…
Investigating Crayfish and Freshwater Ecosystems, Lesson 8 From Mental Maps to GIS: Modeling Data with Visualization and Mapping
Lesson Summary Students are engaged by creating mental maps of their local watershed or the larger…
Investigating Crayfish and Freshwater Ecosystems, Lesson 7 Crayfish as Indicator Species
Lesson Summary Students will first read about a hypothetical mysterious phenomenon about crayfish disappearing from a…
Investigating Crayfish and Freshwater Ecosystems, Lesson 6 Competing Crayfish Game
Lesson Summary In this lesson, students model impacts of invasive species by playing an engaging game…
Plankton: Educators explore these tiny Great Lakes heroes
By Nate Drag | March 2025 What happened? To learn about the microscopic world of Great…
Investigating Crayfish and Freshwater Ecosystems, Lesson 5 Collecting Reliable Crayfish Data
Lesson Summary In this lesson, students participate in a scientific field study* and apply what they…
Workshops Connect the Watershed Game and Real-world Restoration
By Nate Drag | March 2025 What happened? On August 2nd and 5th, 2024, 21 teachers…
Full Curriculum: Investigating Crayfish and Freshwater Ecosystems
Curriculum Developed by: Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant This curriculum is made possible through a partnership between Engaging…
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