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Engage students in authentic animal behavior research using the live fish collection at Great Lakes Aquarium.

This kit features twelve lessons for a variety of ages that relate to invasive species in the Great Lakes.

Practice using simple machines in a Lake Superior context.

Students become lake sturgeon traveling a migration route to model life cycle stages.

Students will simulate an aquatic food chain to observe how contaminants bioaccumulate and biomagnify.

Students become mussels to explore how invasive species can affect the balance within aquatic ecosystems.

Exploration of fish adaptations through costumes, group activities and art.

Students learn about the life stages and body parts of various aquatic insects.

Students become a water drop in a simulation of how the water cycle works.

Students discover how energy flows and is transferred between the interdependent organisms of an ecosystem.

Students model movement and relationships between organisms in Lake Superior.

Students will develop an understanding of geology of the Lake Superior Basin.