NOTE: These lesson plans have been absorbed into a new site called "Teaching Great Lakes Science" so feel free to check out what they've added!
About Project FLOW: http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/flow/downloads.html#fish
Supported by Michigan Sea Grant, the Fisheries Learning on the Web (FLOW) curriculum is designed to be an engaging, cost-effective tool for educators. Features of the FLOW curriculum:
http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/flow/downloads.html#fish
Unit 1: Food Web
Unit 2: Water
Unit 3: Fish
About Project FLOW: http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/flow/downloads.html#fish
Supported by Michigan Sea Grant, the Fisheries Learning on the Web (FLOW) curriculum is designed to be an engaging, cost-effective tool for educators. Features of the FLOW curriculum:
- Lesson content clearly addresses lesson objectives, based on content expectations and benchmarks.
For more information, see the Standards and Benchmarks Overview. - Includes meaningful assessment tools with learning objectives, student performance and recommended points.
For more information, see the Assessment Overview. - Complements similar efforts about the Great Lakes and oceans, such as the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s MEECS curriculum (Ecosystems and Water Quality) and Great Lakes COSEE.
- Links to supplemental classroom materials, see Michigan Sea Grant Education and Bookstore.
- Engages K-12 educators and students with hands-on activities and high quality graphics, such as fish cards.
http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/flow/downloads.html#fish
Unit 1: Food Web
- Lesson 1: Make the Connection
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content. - Lesson 2: Who's Eating Whom?
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content, table 1, food tokens, and behavior cards. - Lesson 3: Great Lakes Most Unwanted
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content, and Aquatic Invasive Species Matching Game Cards. - Lesson 4: Beat the Barriers
Entire printable PDF includes: Beat the Barriers game board, Barrier Cards, Lamprey Cards, and Barrier Fact Sheet. - Lesson 5: Ruffe Musical Chairs
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content, and Ruffe Musical Chairs game cards.
Unit 2: Water
- Lesson 1: Exploring Watersheds
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content, and What is a Watershed? student worksheet. - Lesson 2: Wetland in a Pan
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content. - Lesson 3: Water Quality
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content, and Water Body worksheet. - Lesson 4: What Makes Water Healthy?
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content, and Water Quality Worksheet. - Lesson 5: Hydropoly: A Decision-Making Game
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content, and Decision Cards.
Unit 3: Fish
- Lesson 1: Fins, Tails and Scales: Identifying Great Lakes Fish
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content, Great Lakes fish family cards & generic fish graphic, Dichotomous key: Great Lakes Fish Families, and Fish characteristics fact sheet. - Lesson 2: Fish Habitat
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content, and Aquatic habitat data worksheet. - Lesson 3: Fish Life Cycle
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content, Fish Life Cycle Worksheet and Reproductive Strategies fact sheet. - Lesson 4: Fish Populations
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content, FLOW Case Study and Coho Salmon in Lake Michigan. - Lesson 5: Great Lakes, Great Careers
Entire printable PDF includes: Lesson content.
Credits:
FLOW Development Team - Michigan Sea Grant
Michigan Sea Grant supports ongoing updates and improvements to the FLOW curriculum, including the revision of the fishes unit in 2006-2007 and the alignment of FLOW to the Michigan Curriculum Framework Content Expectations (standards and benchmarks) in 2008.
FLOW Development Team - Michigan Sea Grant
- Joyce Daniels, Senior Editor, Michigan Sea Grant
- Nikki Koehler, Education Specialist, Michigan Sea Grant
- Elizabeth LaPorte, Project Director, Michigan Sea Grant
- Todd Marsee, Senior Graphic Artist, Michigan Sea Grant
- Brandon Schroeder, Fisheries Expert, Michigan Sea Grant
- Anna Switzer, Education Specialist, University of Michigan
Michigan Sea Grant supports ongoing updates and improvements to the FLOW curriculum, including the revision of the fishes unit in 2006-2007 and the alignment of FLOW to the Michigan Curriculum Framework Content Expectations (standards and benchmarks) in 2008.