Apr 10
Science gets personal when students trade their desks for the decks of a tall ship. Listen up: What does a tall ship in Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay have in common with a classroom? Students, when it’s part of Baysail’s Science Under Sail. This program gives kids from kindergarten up a firsthand look at water quality, …
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Mar 22
What’s app-ening in your local waterway?: Everyday explorers are now using their smartphones to document what they see in their local waterways. It’s thanks to an app called FISH – or first investigation of stream health. “Anybody any place can use this to track data,” says Kristen Kyler of the Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center. …
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Jun 25
The golden years of water advocacy: A program in Milwaukee helps seniors become advocates for the city’s rivers and Lake Michigan. Gray: “Some of them have time on their hands and are interested in learning more about issues and getting more involved as advocates for natural resources.” Dan Gray is with the Milwaukee Riverkeeper’s Senior …
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Jan 18
Power to the people…who united to protect hundreds of acres of green space around Cleveland. Get inspired: When the last big plot of open land in Parma, Ohio was slated for development, a group of proactive citizens formed to save the 80-acre stretch of land. And they didn’t stop there! Derek Schafer of the West …
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Nov 24
One 7th-grade science teacher is telling his students about the exhilarating week he spent on a research vessel. Get hooked on this: Seventh grade science teacher Scott Krebbeks of central New York says many kids think scientists are always tucked away in labs. But he knows better. Krebbeks and other educators spent a week with …
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