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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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| Inland Seas Education Association (Schoolship) | free sample lesson | |
| Grade level: 5-12 | Date: 2005 | Program cost: $5.00 |
| Subjects: history, math, music, science, social studies, environmental studies, geography | ||
Correlated to education standards? Yes
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This half-day schoolship experience is supplemented by pre- and post-trip activities in the classroom. It is a hands-on, multi-disciplinary program organized by learning stations linked to important Great Lakes concepts.
The Inland Seas Education Program (ISEA), located in the Grand Traverse Bay region of northern Michigan, is based on a half-day schoolship experience that is supplemented by pre- and post-schoolship activities in the classroom. On the Schoolship, trained staff engage students and their classroom teachers in a hands-on, multi-disciplinary program organized by learning stations. Concepts related to the Great Lakes are covered, including the food web, watersheds, and invasive species. Various subject areas are covered at each station: math and geography (navigation station), chemistry (water chemistry station), biology, geology, and earth science (sediments-benthos station), biology (plankton and fish stations), and physics and history (seamanship station). The activities are organized as follows: Navigation, Water Chemistry, Weather, Seamanship, Large Group Sampling, Sediments/Benthos, Plankton, and Fish. ISEA's educational objectives are correlated to some of the science objectives of the Michigan Essential Goals and Objectives for Science Education (K-12). Some relevant social studies benchmarks are also included. Sixteen pre- and post-trip activities, four added in 2005, are provided in the teacher's guide to help students prepare for some of the activities on the Schoolship and to reinforce concepts addressed on board. Also added is a section on Great Lakes Stewardship and involvement , and a Stewardship Challenge checklist, which have an action orientation. ISEA also provides a web site where schools can familiarize themselves with the ship through a Schoolship Sail Training Manual, input photos of their trip, learn about Great Lakes careers and pursue links to related web sites and activities.
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| Issue 1: Habitat |  | Key Characteristic 1: Accuracy |  | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 2: Pollution | | Key Characteristic 2: Depth |  | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 3: Invasives | | Key Characteristic 3: Skills | | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 4: Ecosystem | | Key Characteristic 4: Action | | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 5: Biodiversity | - | Key Characteristic 5: Soundness | | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 6: Build Fisheries | | Key Characteristic 6: Usability | | ||||||||||||||
| Issue 7: Treaty Rights | - |
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| Issue 8: Manage Fisheries | - | ||||||||||||||||
| Issue 9: Stewardship | | ||||||||||||||||
| Issue 10: Fishing | - | ||||||||||||||||
| Issue 11: Careers | - | ||||||||||||||||
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