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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…
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…
2024 Shipboard Science Immersion on Lake Erie
By Michelle Niedermeier | July 7, 2024 What happened? 15 teachers and educators from across the…
2023 Shipboard Science Immersion on Lake Ontario
By Nate Drag | February 28, 2025 What happened? 15 teachers and educators from across the…
Article: Alien Language Series Part 5 – What’s in a (species) name?
This article discusses the justification for reviewing and changing the names of certain species with culturally…
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