Virtual Workshops

Direct to your school from F.T. Stone Laboratory on Lake Erie

Excite your science class with an experience in aquatic ecology without leaving the classroom! Meet required grade level Benchmarks and Indicators with activities using local organisms and issues to teach global concepts in life science.

Staff from Ohio's Lake Erie Laboratory on Gibraltar Island will guide students in a class period filled with live demonstrations and discussions about life in the lake, and how lake studies show environmental changes over time.

Choose from the following topics for this academic year

Ins and Outs of Lake Erie Fish Dichotomous key for fish ID. Dissection of fresh fish.	Macroinvertbrates, Mayflies and Monitoring Collection & ID of benthic animals. Water quality monitoring. Mayflies and Lake Erie's health	Plankton Pros and Cons Collection and ID. Food chains and webs. Problematic plankton. Dead Zone

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