K-12 Education

Co-created science curriculum units (Next Generation Science Standards). Please reach out if you are an educator and would like to collaborate to develop activities for your students!

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K-12 Education

Phytoplankton lesson plan

Tiny water organisms called phytoplankton make half of the oxygen you breath, as much as all the trees and plant life on land! Learn about the phytoplankton in your local river ecosystem and how natural cycles connect phytoplankton to the health of the environment and ourselves. Set up a classroom laboratory to observe and measure the effects of light and nutrients on phytoplankton growth in your local river water (Detroit River, Rouge River, Huron River, River Raisin, etc.).


Phytoplankton lesson slides

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Biomass and fossil fuels lesson plan

Learn about the ancient origins of the "fossil" fuels that have run the engines of the industrial revolution and how tracking carbon in your community today can be part of climate change solutions. Learn how the formation of coal is related to ancient aquatic plants and animals. You will create a model this million year process out of bread and MnMs to simulate how fossil fuels form. Use the Detroit River Story Lab carbon data to discuss how combusting carbon affects the Detroit river and how this knowledge can be used to come up with climate change strategies in your neighborhood and community.


Biomass and fossil fuels lesson slides

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Duhaime lab heads south for the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE)



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