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How is climate change impacting coastal ecosytems?  If sea level rises one meter, where will the tide land on the landscape?  Are oceans storms accreting or eroding sediments?  Middle School students may investigate these questions in a coastal ecosystem near you. 

This conference is for students participating in Mass Audubon's Salt Marsh Science Project and is a place for students to showcase their analysis of salt marsh data.

In this program, participants will visit a site where perennial pepperweed is located. They will learn to recognize it in the field. They will learn to use a gps unit or an app on their phone to record the location of the pepperweed. Participants will learn to fill out data sheet.

Participants will learn to recognized the invasive perennial pepperweed, and remove it from salt marshes. They will pull out as much root as possible to prevent regrowth. They will dispose of the pepperweed responsibly.

Participants will learn to recognized the invasive perennial pepperweed, and remove it from salt marshes. They will pull out as much root as possible to prevent regrowth. They will dispose of the pepperweed responsibly.

Help improve our coastal areas. Option 1: Help clean up litter and collect data on types and sources of litter you found. Option 2: Help pull invasive perenniall pepperweed from coastal sites. Learn proper pulling, containing, and disposal methods. (1-3 hours). Community Service hours available.

Are invasive crabs out-competing native crab species? Help assess crab populations while applying important math and science skills. Help document the spread of Asian Shore Crabs.

Are invasive crabs out-competing native crab species? Help assess crab populations while applying important math and science skills. Help document the spread of Asian Shore Crabs.

How will a warming climate impact local inland fish populations? Can cool water species survive at current temperatures? Students will investigate these questions. Call to discuss sampling sites on or near your school grounds. (1-2 hours)

How will a warming climate impact local inland fish populations? Can cool water species survive at current temperatures? Students will investigate these questions. Call to discuss sampling sites on or near your school grounds. (1-2 hours)

What are invasive species and how are people working to reduce them? Learn about local efforts to control invasive species such as perennial pepperweed, Phragmites, and purple loosestrife. Learn how your class can help. This class is a lecture format and may include an on-line investigation, if there is time. (45 min-1 hour)

What are invasive species and how are people working to reduce them? Learn about local efforts to control invasive species such as perennial pepperweed, Phragmites, and purple loosestrife. Learn how your class can help. This class is a lecture format and may include an on-line investigation, if there is time. (45 min-1 hour)

What are invasive species and how are people working to reduce them? Learn about local efforts to control invasive species such as perennial pepperweed, Phragmites, and purple loosestrife. Learn how your class can help. This class is a lecture format and may include an on-line investigation, if there is time. (45 min-1 hour)

What is a wetland? Why do we care about them? How have people treated wetlands in the past? What are people doing to protect and restore wetlands? Students will explore these questions through a combination of guided discussion, video and presentation. Note: this can be a stand-alone program or combined with a salt marsh field trip. (45 min-1 hour)

Lessoning Loosestrife is curriculum designed for elementary - high school level students to help teach about wetlands, invasive species, and about using biocontrol beetles as a tool for controlling a wetland invader, purple loosestrife. Our aim is to not only teach lessons about loosestrife and key ecological concepts, but also to lessen the impact of this invader, while developing and reinforcing a stewardship ethic in students. This program will teach you monitoring techniques as well as how to rear beetles.

How can students individually and collectively live more sustainably? Challenge your class to assess their carbon footprint, and go on a "Low Carbon Diet" to reduce carbon emissions. This program meets once every week or two for four sessions. Our staff can launch it in your school, for you to continue, or come back once a week for four weeks.

How can students individually and collectively live more sustainably? Challenge your class to assess their carbon footprint, and go on a "Low Carbon Diet" to reduce carbon emissions. This program meets once every week or two for four sessions. Our staff can launch it in your school, for you to continue, or come back once a week for four weeks.

How healthy are our local watersheds? How are humans helping or harming local rivers? How do macroinvertebrates help reveal the health of local rivers? A classroom lesson will introduce these topics as well as ecological services that rivers provide.  A follow up field trip will engage students in data collecting in a local ecosystem using the Ipswich River Watershed Association's river monitoring protocol.

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 How fast are salt marshes eroding as sea level rises?  Are warming currents brining new species to North Shore salt marhes? Investigate a local salt marsh to help Mass Audubon and other scientists answer these questions.

Who killed Barney the barnacle, and how? Learn about adaptations and habitat in this cooperative investigation. Note: This can be a stand alone program, or combined with a rocky shore field trip. (45 min-1 hour)

In this program, participants will visit a site where perennial pepperweed is located. They will learn to recognize it in the field. They will learn to use a gps unit or an app on their phone to record the location of the pepperweed. Participants will learn to fill out data sheet.

Participants will learn to recognized the invasive perennial pepperweed, and remove it from salt marshes. They will pull out as much root as possible to prevent regrowth. They will dispose of the pepperweed responsibly.

How will rising sea levels impact coastal areas? What are current sea level rise projections, and how will they impact the high tides on local beaches? Students will use a spotting level to investigate and raise awareness about this impact of a changing climate.

How will rising sea levels impact coastal areas? What are current sea level rise projections, and how will they impact the high tides on local beaches? Students will use a spotting level to investigate and raise awareness about this impact of a changing climate.

What species live on the rocky shore? Do they live closer to the water, or further away? Using a scientific protocol students will investigate these questions. Chaperones required to assist small groups. Please note, proper footwear is required- including for chaperones!

Discover and explore salt marsh habitats including low marsh, high marsh, mud flat, salt panne and river. Students willl explore and discover plants and animals that live in these habitats, and learn how salt marshes are formed. Chaperones are required to help escort students in smaller groups. Water proof boots required!

Discover and explore salt marsh habitats including low marsh, high marsh, mud flat, salt panne and river. Students willl explore and discover plants and animals that live in these habitats, and learn how salt marshes are formed. Chaperones are required to help escort students in smaller groups. Water proof boots required!

Learn to measure salinity, identify plants, collect data on plant species' distribution and vegetation vigor along transects, and collect fish abundance data. Investigate invasive plant species and restoration.

Learn to measure salinity, identify plants, collect data on plant species' distribution and vegetation vigor along transects, and collect fish abundance data. Investigate invasive plant species and restoration.

The Salt Marsh Science Project engages high school teachers and students in authentic science experiences. Our model: High School Teachers, in partnership with professional scientists, and an education coordinator conduct  investigations on salt marshes .  

• Monitoring the growth of the invasive reed, Phragmites in salt marshes.
• Studying the effect of salinity (salt content) levels on the growth of salt marsh vegetation.
• Assessing tidal restrictions (where human actions have obstructed the natural flow of the tide).
• Sampling fish above and below tidal restrictions to determine the impact of these restrictions on fish.
• Investigating how salt marshes are responding to rising sea level.

The Salt Marsh Science Project engages high school teachers and students in authentic science experiences. Our model: High School Teachers, in partnership with professional scientists, and an education coordinator conduct  investigations on salt marshes .  

• Monitoring the growth of the invasive reed, Phragmites in salt marshes.
• Studying the effect of salinity (salt content) levels on the growth of salt marsh vegetation.
• Assessing tidal restrictions (where human actions have obstructed the natural flow of the tide).
• Sampling fish above and below tidal restrictions to determine the impact of these restrictions on fish.
• Investigating how salt marshes are responding to rising sea level.

The Salt Marsh Science Project engages middle school teachers and students in authentic science experiences. Our model: Middleh School Teachers, in partnership with professional scientists, and an education coordinator conduct  investigations on salt marshes .  

• Monitoring the growth of the invasive reed, Phragmites in salt marshes.
• Studying the effect of salinity (salt content) levels on the growth of salt marsh vegetation.
• Assessing tidal restrictions (where human actions have obstructed the natural flow of the tide).
• Sampling fish above and below tidal restrictions to determine the impact of these restrictions on fish.
• Investigating how salt marshes are responding to rising sea level.

Technology Training.  Learn to enter and analyze fish, vegetation, and salinity data. Explore the resources available on Mass Audubon's Salt Marsh Science Website. Practice using "Data Nuggets" lessons to aquaint yourself with great educational resources based on local data.

Technology Training.  Learn to enter and analyze fish, vegetation, and salinity data. Explore the resources available on Mass Audubon's Salt Marsh Science Website. Practice using "Data Nuggets" lessons to aquaint yourself with great educational resources based on local data.

Join Mass Audubon educators as we learn how energy from the sun powers life on Earth, both living processes and the technologies we use to power our communities. Each lesson explores one aspect of the energy cycle within biotic and abiotic systems; including photosynthesis, consumers, decomposers, renewable, and non-renewable energies.

Trees provide much more than shade or pretty additions to city streets and neighborhood parks. This unit explores habitats, adaptations, and life cycles, with trees as a unifying theme. With accessibility to all learners as a priority, lessons highlight the diversity of trees across various Massachusetts habitats, including suburban, urban and rural areas. Nature journaling assignments highlight observation and other science skills and encourage students to choose a tree near their home or school to chronicle throughout the unit.

Are trees the solution to climate change? Through place-based, inquiry driven investigation, students will study the role of trees in the carbon cycle, and expand their investigation to find out whether forest sequestration, or indeed any one nature-based solution, is enough to fight climate change. Finally, students will explore their own role as a changemaker by planning a collective, climate-positive action.

In this unit we will explore different types of "minibeasts", or invertebrates, like worms, pill bugs, and more. Students will engage in outdoor investigations to find out where the best place is for a minibeast to live. Students will document their observations in field journals as they explore different habitats in their schoolyard and use models to explain how these habitats may or may not support the needs of invertebrates. Finally, students will expand their investigation to explore the role invertebrates play to enrich the soil, and understand how humans can learn from them to reduce their footprint and protect their local environment.

In this unit, students will get outside and investigate the ways stronger storms impact their communities, specifically through rain and snow. They will identify places of vulnerability and places of resilience in their schoolyard or neighborhood. As a culminating project, they will design solutions to help reduce the impacts of stronger storms in their area and communicate it with members of their community.

Help improve our coastal areas. Option 1: Help clean up litter and collect data on types and sources of litter you found. Option 2: Help pull invasive perenniall pepperweed from coastal sites. Learn proper pulling, containing, and disposal methods. (1-3 hours).

Participants wil learn scientific monitoring protocols as they identify fish, and nekton such as crab and shrimp that they catch using a seine net in the near-shore coastal environment. They wil learn to record these on a data sheet.

Participants wil learn scientific monitoring protocols as they identify fish, and nekton such as crab and shrimp that they catch using a seine net in the near-shore coastal environment. They wil learn to record these on a data sheet.

Highlights of this course will be field and classroom investigations to learn how scientists know climate is changing. This course offers a variety of activities for teachers including methods of studying the changing timing of biological events such as tree leaf drop and bud burst, investigations of physical properties of water, and how these properties impact global circulation currents, and reviewing current resources such as web-sites, curriculum and videos to help students understand the complex abstract topics of climate change. Teachers will consider their own impact on the planet, and explore solutions.