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- Virtual Field Trip: Microplastics in the Lakes
Virtual Field Trip: Microplastics in the Lakes
Exploring MichiganScienceVirtual Field Trips6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th - 12th GradeDid you know that over 10,000 tons of plastics enters the Great Lakes every year? Researchers in New York have been looking into plastics pollution in the Grea…
- Virtual Field Trip: Floating Habitats
Virtual Field Trip: Floating Habitats
Exploring MichiganScienceVirtual Field Trips6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th - 12th GradeA partnership of the John G. Shedd Aquarium’s Kayak for Conservation program and the Urban Rivers organization has created new “floating” islands to replace th…
- Virtual Field Trip: (Ship)Wrecks Within Reach
Virtual Field Trip: (Ship)Wrecks Within Reach
Exploring MichiganScienceVirtual Field Trips6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th - 12th GradeThe Great Lakes only national marine sanctuary brings underwater history up close. Whether you’re in a glass-bottomed boat, looking down from a kayak, or divin…
- The Cost of Drinking WaterLesson 2205
The Cost of Drinking Water
Exploring MichiganScience6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th GradeBased on an independent project by the Great Lakes News Collaborative to better understand the real cost of water, this lesson will explore the costs associate…
- The Great Lakes “Vampire”Lesson 2206
The Great Lakes “Vampire”
Exploring MichiganScience6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th GradeThis lesson will explore the phenomenon of invasive species in the Great Lakes, specifically the sea lamprey, to help students learn how predator-prey relation…
- Superior SalamandersLesson 2207
Superior Salamanders
Exploring MichiganScience6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th GradeThis lesson will explore the phenomenon of salamander migration — across a main road — in Presque Isle Park near Lake Superior and the efforts to protect the p…
- Combating Coal AshLesson 2208
Combating Coal Ash
Exploring MichiganScience6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th GradeExplore the phenomenon of coal ash contamination in groundwater and the threat it poses to Lake Michigan and other areas of the Great Lakes waterways.
- Fascinating Freshwater FishLesson 2209
Fascinating Freshwater Fish
Exploring MichiganScience6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th GradeExplore the phenomenon of biodiversity in the Great Lakes and the efforts one museum in Ontario, Canada has taken to catalog it.
