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On this page is a selection of online or downloadable resources related to the Great Lakes, local watersheds, water quality, or opportunities for student action.
On this page is a selection of online or downloadable resources related to the Great Lakes, local watersheds, water quality, or opportunities for student action.
This manual provides educators with the tools, worksheets, and information to effectively plan and implement meaningful watershed educational experiences.
This resource by NOAA provides excellent information about nutrient pollution - including where it comes from, how it affects waterways, and what people are doing about it. It is included in the National Science Teacher Association (NSTA) database.
Teachers and students can search for current opportunities including one-day events, NOAA summer internships, or virtual events for any grade level, from kindergarten through high school, undergraduate, and graduate!
Seven NGSS lessons that are paired with video footage of different National Marine Sanctuaries around the U.S.! In the Lake Ontario lesson, students explore the wreck of a schooner and learn about the technologies used to locate and image shipwrecks.
This web-based tool allows the user to visualize the impacts of changing water levels across the Great Lakes, examine historical water levels, and view photo simulations of potential impacts. This information can be used to discuss shoreline management and impacts on human development.
DEC's Great Lakes Program has launched the New York Great Lakes Shore Viewer, an interactive map that allows users to explore approximately 850 miles of New York's Great Lakes shorelines, including Lake Erie, the Niagara River, Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River, and many of the larger embayments. Routinely updated and publicly accessible coastal oblique imagery is intended to support state resilience programs, promote ecosystem-based shoreline management, and assist with shoreline change monitoring. Funding for this project was provided by the NYS Environmental Protection Fund.
An initiative between Detroit Public TV and PBS, Great Lakes Now provides information about a wide range of subjects affecting life in the Great Lakes region including water quality, public policy, economic development and resource conservation. This page features links to their educational resources, including lesson plans related to their monthly television program (available on YouTube or WCNY-TV/WPBS-TV), virtual field trips and other Great Lakes-related resources.
This 5-minute video describes the collaborative efforts of DEC and US Fish and Wildlife Service to restore lake sturgeon populations across the state. The video shows how the fish are collected and the “egg take” process that is used to ensure their eggs are viable and ready to be fertilized. This video and the Lake Sturgeon Restoration Effort video (2 min, describes PIT tagging in juvenile fish at Oneida Fish Hatchery) are perfect supplements for the NY SeaGrant Sturgeon Sack!
This interdisciplinary curriculum features 8 lessons and 4 extension activities connects the history and ecology of areas along Lake Erie, the Niagara River, and Lake Ontario using the underground railroad. Read more about this collaborative project here.
This lesson was developed with funding from NOAA's B-WET program. The lesson has students utilize real data collected from inputs to Onondaga Lake to calculate nutrient loading to the lake. Students will visualize how nutrient loading was impacted following infrastructure upgrades made at the Syracuse Metro Wastewater Treatment Plant.
For more resources, please contact Monica to be added to the LOOOP's shared Google Drive. Members of the Drive have access to data collection protocols, links to additional resources, and more!
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