Curriculum Outline

I. Introduction to Bell LIVE! 2000

II. Index to Standards Alignment

III. Bulletin Board

a. Activities and ideas for creating an interactive classroom bulletin board with your students.

I. Skills Section

a. Two lessons dealing with major scientific skills used repeatedly in the body of the curriculum.

1. making scientific models

2. observing and inferring

I. Section 1: Setting the Stage

a. How an ancient rift in the continent and glaciers helped to form Lake Superior.

b. Geologic Time.

c. How water and wind shape lake shores.

d. Wave action.

e. Mapping the floor of Lake Superior

I. Section 2: The Water

a. Water cycle.

b. Groundwater.

c. Salt water vs. fresh water.

d. Measuring pollutants.

e. Point source and non-point source pollution.

f. Lake turnover.

I. Section 3: Water Quality Study

a. Knowing your watershed.

b. Water quality testing.

I. Section 4: Life in the Lake

a. Comparing Great Lakes watersheds.

1. Superior vs. Erie.

2. How does watershed size impact nutrients in a lake?

3. Growing plants with and without nutrients.

b. Light penetration.

c. Dissolved Oxygen.

d. Food webs.

1. Bioaccumulation

e. Introduced / Exotic Species

1. Boat building.

IX Section 5: Human Impact

a. How does Lake Superior affect the weather?

b. Urban and economics impact on Great Lakes.

c. Human History around the Great Lakes.

1. Myth / Folklore.

2. Explorers.

3. Shipwrecks.