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Project FLOW: New Classroom Lessons Highlight Great Lakes In Michigan, the Great Lakes play a central role in environmental education. Several Michigan Sea Grant materials are among the supplemental resources in the MEECS packages for educators including a Web link to Michigan Sea Grant's new online curriculum, Fisheries Learning on the Web (FLOW). This new collection of Great Lakes lessons complements the MEECS focus on Michigan-specific materials. Designed for grades 4-8, Project FLOW lessons are aligned with state and national educational standards and benchmarks. Relevant hands-on activities provide educators and young people with a science-based introduction to significant Great Lakes issues and concepts. Specific lesson components also enhance the learning process, explains project director Elizabeth LaPorte. “The assessment components, learning objectives, performance objectives and recommended points in Project FLOW lessons encourage higher level thinking whenever possible,” says LaPorte. “We provide a learning and assessment model for educators to identify various levels of cognition for each lesson.” Specific performance or behavior objectives for each lesson can be used for students to demonstrate competence. Assessment ideas, which are tied to learning objectives, provide educators with a meaningful way to measure students’ knowledge and growth. The total point value is flexible depending on the number and type of performances a teacher chooses to include in the lesson assessments. The Project FLOW Web site was recently named Site of the Month for November by the Great Lakes Information Network (GLIN). Project FLOW is also the featured Web site in the recent issue of the University of Michigan’s online magazine, Michigan Today. Supplemental Resources |