Additionally, students learn to define and locate various watersheds, as well as identify different water routes between the Great Lakes and the oceans. This program includes a shipyard tour. Emphasis is on regional history, geography and earth science. Students rotate through various hands-on stations to discover how simple machines, friction, buoyancy and more are used by sailors on the Sweetwater Seas. Emphasis on physical science, cooperation and problem-solving.
Emphasis is on geography, earth science, and history.
An exciting introduction to harmful aquatic exotic species, including zebra mussels, the sea lamprey, and the spiny water flea, offered as an in-school or Maritime Center program. Exotic species are and important curriculum topic to explore and understand aquatic ecology and the role of human impact. Related topics include water and sediment pollution, food webs, global climate change and economic impacts. We plant the ship that will cross the sea. Students will discover the connections between Wisconsin's forest resources and Great Lakes ship building.