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An assortment of teaching kit items: pH testing strips, test tubes and more

EarthEcho Water Quality Testing

Test the dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity and temperature of a local waterway around your learning space! Then, upload your test results to an international database to compare your results to others’ and contribute to the citizen scientists interested in keeping our waterways healthy.

box of pictures and information sheets about wheels and pulleys.

Simple Machines

Practice using simple machines in a Lake Superior context.

box filled with papers and photos in file folders

Becoming Scientists: Interpreting Visual Data

Discuss the variety of ways that data can be visually represented and understood.

Kit materials including multicolored laminated cards, a satellite image overlayed with a grid pattern, tiny multicolored blocks, a protractor with a string tied to it and reels of flexible measuring tape

From Data to Decision Making: Superior National Forest

Collect real-life data and simulate, in a board game setting, all the factors that play into management of a forest ecosystem.

collection of items including markers, papers, and bottles of water arranged on floor

A Meandering Story: An Introduction to Stream Geomorphology

Examine how a stream’s water velocity influences sediment erosion, deposition and transport of materials.

multiple rulers, measuring tapes, calculators, and information sheets arranged on table

Becoming Scientists: Measuring and Collecting Data

In this lesson students will collect physical and observational measurements of a stream using simple stools including tape measures, yard sticks, and stop watches.

Now Open – H2O: Watersheds at Work!