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Attack Pack
This kit features twelve lessons for a variety of ages that relate to invasive species in the Great Lakes.
Bioaccumulation: Scale, proportion and quantity
Students will simulate an aquatic food chain to observe how contaminants bioaccumulate and biomagnify.
Examining Cause and Effect: Mussel Mania
Students become mussels to explore how invasive species can affect the balance within aquatic ecosystems.
Lake Effects Curriculum
The Lake Superior Curriculum Guide for Grades K-8.
Fool Fish with Flies
Students learn about the life stages and body parts of various aquatic insects.
Water Habitat Site Study
Students explore a local water ecosystem and discover organisms living in various habitats.
Food Chain Tag
Students discover how energy flows and is transferred between the interdependent organisms of an ecosystem.
A Superior Connection
Students model movement and relationships between organisms in Lake Superior.
Lake Superior Food Web
Students identify Lake Superior fish and model the Lake Superior food web.
It’s A Ruffe Life: An Introduction to Invasive Species
Students begin by matching images of common invasive species with their characteristics and impacts. Students then engage in an activity that simulates the impacts of Eurasian ruffe on the natural ecosystem of the St. Louis River.