WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:16.860 Currently we're in Sutton's Bay Michigan 00:00:16.860 --> 00:00:18.640 and we're on the Inland Seas, 00:00:18.840 --> 00:00:21.580 learning all about environmental monitoring 00:00:21.580 --> 00:00:23.600 and what's going on on the Great Lakes 00:00:23.609 --> 00:00:26.240 and trying to answer the big essential question of 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:27.940 "are the Great Lakes healthy?" 00:00:28.580 --> 00:00:31.280 Inland Seas has been around for thirty years. 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:33.060 Our goal is to take people out, 00:00:33.260 --> 00:00:35.960 teach them about what's under the Great Lakes 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:37.720 what constitutes the health of the Great Lakes 00:00:37.900 --> 00:00:39.560 beyond what you can just see? 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:42.760 And what they can do to help be stewards in the future. 00:00:44.540 --> 00:00:47.880 The NOAA B-WET grant has allowed us to expand our reach. 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:50.900 So, we've had teachers from Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, 00:00:50.900 --> 00:00:52.720 and throughout the whole of Michigan 00:00:52.720 --> 00:00:55.700 be able to come to our professional development training. 00:00:55.700 --> 00:00:56.970 To be able to take 00:00:56.970 --> 00:01:00.180 those teachers out on field trips 00:01:00.180 --> 00:01:04.560 and really get them connected to this large watershed 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:05.840 that we're all a part of 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:09.140 will really increase the quality of the types 00:01:09.140 --> 00:01:11.880 of watershed education that they'll bring to their students. 00:01:12.220 --> 00:01:14.160 I was accepted to do the field course. 00:01:14.360 --> 00:01:16.700 I was also offered the opportunity to bring 00:01:16.710 --> 00:01:18.900 students to the Inland Seas 00:01:18.900 --> 00:01:20.190 which is super, super valuable. 00:01:20.190 --> 00:01:22.995 You can teach things in the classroom on a Power Point, 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:25.060 but it's another thing to bring them out here 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:27.540 and give them the opportunity to do this. 00:01:27.900 --> 00:01:29.920 So, part of the benefit to the teachers 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:32.120 who attended the field course 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:35.260 was that they received through that NOAA grant 00:01:35.260 --> 00:01:39.880 a full scholarship to take their students out on the school ship. 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:43.220 So, we're in the middle of our rotations right now on the ship 00:01:43.229 --> 00:01:47.180 and in benthos we're finding some good midge larvae. 00:01:47.180 --> 00:01:49.540 We're finding a lot of quagga mussels. 00:01:49.580 --> 00:01:52.320 In the fish station we've caught some rock bass 00:01:52.320 --> 00:01:54.200 and a lot of invasive round gobies. 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:57.840 The micro plastics group has trawled for micro plastics. 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:01.340 And then we have water quality down below looking at the oxygen level 00:02:01.340 --> 00:02:03.540 - the dissolved oxygen in the water - 00:02:03.540 --> 00:02:05.460 and looking at the pH, 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:08.780 and it seems like our plankton group got a really great sample today, too. 00:02:09.380 --> 00:02:11.660 Having that experiential education 00:02:11.660 --> 00:02:15.500 really sparked something for the students and gets them excited about 00:02:15.500 --> 00:02:17.420 water and water health. 00:02:17.420 --> 00:02:20.600 And to be able to bring that back to their classrooms 00:02:20.600 --> 00:02:25.780 and translate that spark into stewardship of their own watershed 00:02:25.780 --> 00:02:29.000 is my goal as a place-based educator. 00:02:32.500 --> 00:02:33.940 We're at Clay High School right now 00:02:33.940 --> 00:02:36.680 in the environmental and agricultural technologies program. 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:38.960 We came back and talked about, you know, 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.480 like, what was the most interesting thing that you learned in Sutton's Bay 00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:46.190 and how can you develop those things that you learned and we're really interesting 00:02:46.190 --> 00:02:48.340 into projects here? 00:02:50.500 --> 00:02:52.900 So we're gonna be picking Phragmites today out of our wetland, 00:02:52.900 --> 00:02:55.000 removing them a little bit at a time. 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.020 Their stewardship project is to remove Phragmites. 00:02:58.020 --> 00:03:00.800 They'll also be looking at Lake Erie and compare 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:05.620 some of the Great Lakes issues between Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. 00:03:07.600 --> 00:03:11.220 My students have the opportunity to complete agriscience fair projects. 00:03:11.220 --> 00:03:17.300 I thought our involvement in this program would help us gain ideas to implement. 00:03:20.020 --> 00:03:22.880 This year was really unique for us because we got to travel up to 00:03:22.880 --> 00:03:29.120 Suttons Bay, Michigan to test water quality on a school ship schooner, 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.840 which was sponsored by the B-WET program. 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:34.740 And we were able to come back to our local area 00:03:34.740 --> 00:03:36.640 and utilize what we learned 00:03:36.640 --> 00:03:38.200 in order to test Wolf Creek. 00:03:38.320 --> 00:03:40.620 And we hope you enjoy our video! 00:03:44.460 --> 00:03:47.320 It helped a lot knowing actually what we were doing 00:03:47.380 --> 00:03:49.760 rather than just being in a classroom being taught. 00:03:49.920 --> 00:03:53.020 Actually going out on the boat being able to sample. 00:03:53.020 --> 00:03:55.400 It's nice being able to really understand 00:03:55.410 --> 00:03:59.160 and use those skills to the best of our ability rather than just briefly 00:03:59.160 --> 00:04:01.020 learning over them in class. 00:04:01.020 --> 00:04:03.960 It was a chance to see how water impacts the community level 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:05.400 all the way to the global level. 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:07.420 It's really nice to be able to apply what we've learned 00:04:07.420 --> 00:04:10.340 in an actual local sense I guess. 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:12.060 "The most creative presentation 00:04:12.060 --> 00:04:13.660 that goes to Clay High School" 00:04:14.040 --> 00:04:17.280 I'm just really really thankful to be a part of this program 00:04:17.280 --> 00:04:20.680 and to have the opportunity to bring students here. 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:23.180 It's probably one of the highlights of my career. 00:04:23.180 --> 00:04:25.043 We got to experience this together 00:04:25.043 --> 00:04:28.240 and kids are gonna remember this, like, their entire life.