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The award-winning interactive television program includes field segments with content experts interviewed by student reporters at Lake Itasca, the Twin Cities, and multiple points downstream.
You will discover:
- how the Headwaters were determined
- the size and scope of the Mississippi River's watershed
- how the river helped the nation grow and how it has influenced culture and commerce
- the projects that help tame the river for navigation and prevent flooding
- how the river and the sediment it carries built one of the world's most important deltas and how that delta region along the Louisiana coast is now disappearing
Produced by PBS affiliate WYES New Orleans in collaboration with CGEE, it will be broadcast on TPT this Sunday and is available anytime on the WYES website.
The Mighty Mississippi recently won the 2019 National Educational Telecommunications Association’s award for Live Virtual Learning Events.
Go Deeper Curriculum Connections
Take a deep dive into the topics introduced by the Mighty Mississippi Electronic Field Trip. Aligned with NGSS standards and with hours of multimedia content that is accessible by subject matter, CGEE’s Waters to the Sea® Mississippi River Adventure offers dozens of interactive maps, short place-based videos, immersive 360 panoramas, and multimedia learning activities.
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