Utilizing the Lake Superior watershed and the St. Louis River as a foundation for learning
Students will play musical chairs to learn about native species and invasive species as well as the impact of invasive species on native species.
Students will learn what lichen, moss, and fungus are as well as how they are important to the ecosystem and to humans.
The emphasis on reading and understanding informational texts in classrooms mirrors our efforts in science at the Lake Superior NERR. These readings are based on real scientific efforts in the Lake Superior Watershed, and include questions to check for understanding. This short text includes pictures of commonly found aquatic macroinvertebrates.
Students will construct a large map of a place of their choosing. This place will be divided into smaller sections using a string/flag grid system. Each student will take their time to create a map of one portion of the grid to be put together into a larger whole.
The curriculum attached is actually a list of websites you can find useful for you and your students. Some of the websites will give you access to data that you can give to your students, other websites (like the WI DNR EEK!! website) provides information that your students can use (and is age appropriate for elementary/middle school). Other websites provide great kits or other resources.
The curriculum contains great outdoor activities for students of all ages.
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!!