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Lower Grand Watershed Interactive Tool
The Lower Grand Watershed Interactive Tool (WIT) was created by the Annis Water Resources Institute, a part of Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. WIT can assist teachers in their efforts with the Strand V: Using Scientific Knowledge in the Earth Sciences Materials. Free lesson plans, great resource for teachers.
Various lesson plan topics in the following areas:
K-5th Grade – V.1 Geosphere
Middle School – V.1 Geosphere, V.2 Hydrosphere
High School – V.2 Hydrosphere.
http://www.gvsu.edu/wri/isc/index.cfm?id=C925412E-0A83-2702-C464BC6010C0699B

Great Lakes Information Network
Teaching plans tailored to meet Michigan education benchmarks. Both free and purchasable lesson plans for specific grade levels in K-12 curriculum. Focused more on great lakes ecology and invasive species, not so much watershed specific.
http://www.glin.net/teach/teachers/index.html

Project Flow – Fisheries Learning on the Web
Comprehensive curriculum about the Great Lakes ecosystem. Lessons are geared to upper elementary and middle school students and align with state and national curriculum standards. Lesson plans focus on the Food Web, Water and Fish. Water: Lesson 1: Exploring Watersheds overviews a simple hands-on project to help students understand how a watershed works. Project FLOW (Fisheries Learning on the Web) was developed by Michigan Sea Grant College Program with support from the Great Lakes Fishery Trust.
http://www.projectflow.us/

Michigan Tech, Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences
Teaching units for grades 5-12 set to state benchmarks dealing with forest ecology.
http://wupcenter.mtu.edu/education/Forest_Institute/index2004.html

Michigan.gov, History, Arts and Libraries
Michigan History Lesson Plans set to state benchmarks include
Lesson Plan – When Glaciers Covered Michigan
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793---,00.html

Project Webfoot: A Ducks Unlimited Wetlands Education Program
Offers a teachers kit of learning materials intended to “help bring the world of wetlands to life for 4th-6th graders. Curriculum materials are created with an interdisciplinary approach to learning and can be used for a variety of subjects including science, reading, art and social studies.
http://www.projectwebfoot.org/index.html

Project Wet
Website has link to the Project Wet store with numerous materials for educators for sale including teachers guides, student workbooks and water testing kits. This project is in partnership with the “Healthy Water, Health People” website at (www.healthywater.org) and Tribal Waters, a program geared toward the native American approach to water cycles (www.tribalwater.org)
http://www.projectwet.org/

MDEQ-Michigan Department of Environmental Quality – Michigan Environmental Education Curriculum Support (MEECS)
Curriculum units designed for the MEECS include units on air quality, ecosystems, energy resources, individuals’ impacts on the land and water quality. Units are targeted to science and social studies for middle school students (Grades 4-9). Facilitators are currently (now-Dec. 2006) being trained in order to train teachers on the units. For more information and curriculum outlines with additional links/resources, visit the websity.
http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3307_3580_29678---,00.html

Genesee County Community Water Quality Consortium

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