Students are introduced to the major features of the Great Lakes, parts of a fish, and practice skills in listening, map reading and cooperation. Adapted from Great Lakes in My World. Students make inferences about a variety of objects used by or important to shipbuilders, sailors, or aquatic scientists. 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.