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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."
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| Exotic Aquatics | free sample lesson | |
| Grade level: 4-12 | Date: 1994 | Program cost: Free |
| Subjects: art, environmental studies, geography, language arts, math, science | ||
Correlated to education standards? Yes
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Table of Contents
Exotic Aquatics is a science kit and curriculum that provides hands-on activities to help educators teach about a wide range of problems associated with aquatic exotic species, specifically: Eurasian ruffe, spiny water flea, Eurasian watermilfoil, purple loosestrife, sea lamprey, and zebra mussel.
Exotic Aquatics is a learning resource science kit and curriculum that provides experiments, games, stories, and other hands-on activities to help educators teach about a wide range of problems associated with aquatic exotic species; specifically the Eurasian ruffe, spiny water flea, Eurasian watermilfoil, purple loosestrife, sea lamprey, and zebra mussel. The curriculum guide outlines nine lessons that start with focus questions, and leads students through activities that involve exploration, observation, measurement, classification, inference, prediction, communication, formulation of hypotheses, experimentation, and interpretation of data. Most of the activities are better suited for younger students. The lessons focus on adaptations of specific exotic species that provide competitive advantages, and human interventions that may reduce the spread of exotic species. Topics addressed throughout the curriculum include biodiversity, competition, exotic species, habitat, native species, parasites, predators, and wetlands. Concepts are simply but clearly addressed.
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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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