Utilizing the Lake Superior watershed and the St. Louis River as a foundation for learning
This is a copy of the first map ever drawn of the St. Louis River Estuary. It was drawn by Admiral Henry Bayfield in 1824. Pay close attention to the inscription on the map.
There are 5 critters from the Lake Superior watershed just waiting to meet you! A series of characteristics are read aloud, while guesses are taken, then the aquatic vertebrate is revealed.
NOAA has developed a Great Lakes tour through Google Earth. Check it out!
A wonderfully crafted scavenger hunt for a no-fail outdoor experience with your students.
Get out in your own backyard and see what's going on! Open up the Nature Nibble document to take a look at what is going on outside your window. Use the Nature Nibble Links document to open up a YouTube video to watch and some animal sounds to listen to before you go outside. Be sure to look around for other things happening outside your window and either write them down or draw them in your journal. Get out there and have fun!
Students will learn the concept of a pattern. Students will be able to identify, continue and create patterns. Students will learn to recognize patterns in nature.
Students will participate in a hike around their local nature space/place and make observations about what is happening in that natural place. They will try to answer questions like, ‘What is new?’ ‘What is different?’ ‘What has changed?’
Continue the classroom discussions about Phenology and the Lake Superior Watershed with these questions relating to Winter
Use these questions relating to Phenology and the Lake Superior Watershed to get young learners to think about their "Neighborhood".
Spring has arrived! Here are some questions to get the discussion going about what is happening right outside the classroom!