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Explore Human Impacts on the Mississippi River, from Flooding to Fauna

by , posted on 8:37 AM, March 4, 2021
Awesome Place-Based Resources for STEAM Educators from Hamline University.
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From Hamline University Center for Global Environmental Education:

Enrich classroom learning and study-at-home with great programs that bring America’s greatest river, and its inhabitants, fully to life. Easy-to-navigate interactives explore STEAM and social studies content for grades 3-8. Built-in teacher resources make place-based online teaching exciting and accessible for all types of instruction. From the Mississippi’s headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico, engage your students in an intriguing online learning adventure. Dive in to these learning tools: 

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    Waters to the Sea®: Mississippi River Adventure offers an internationally acclaimed exploration of the river’s natural and cultural heritage. Dozens of short videos, immersive 360 panoramas, and thought-provoking multimedia learning modules are integrated with a GIS story-map interface.

     

    • The Mighty Mississippi takes students on an hour-long PBS documentary field trip from the headwaters to the gulf. Four student reporters guide viewers from the forests of northern Minnesota to the swamps of Louisiana and encounter amazing environments, history and animals along the way. 

    • Dynamic Delta Online brings to life the richness of the Mississippi River Delta for students in grades 6-8. The interactive multimedia program explores interactions between people and nature - from the formation of the Gulf of Mexico to modern river commerce; from wildlife and ecosystems to pollution and land-loss.

Go deeper with professional development opportunities, events and a wide array of K-12 resources investigating the Mississippi River and ecosystems across the globe.

Learning Resources

 

History, Engineering and Human Impacts of Flood Control Along the Lower Mississippi River

Waters to the Sea® Stories: The Lower Mississippi Flood Protection System

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 from 6 - 7 p.m. CDT

Join us for a presentation by Dr. Bob Thomas, preeminent environmental educator and Loyola University professor, on the history and human impacts of floods and flood control on the Lower Mississippi River. You will also discover how the Dynamic Delta Online and Waters to the Sea®: Mississippi River Adventure learning programs can teach these topics in the hybrid, virtual, or in-person classroom. 

Register now, and see all our upcoming webinars here. One free CEU is provided for completing any Waters to the Sea® Stories webinar!