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Snowy Egret standing on grassy island surrounded by water
Snowy Egret @ Clare Carvel

Salt Marsh Science Project Resources & Links

Curriculum

Middle & High School Students

This curriculum includes classroom activities, identification sheets, and a dichotomous key for identifying salt marsh plants. It also provides data sheets for salt marsh field trips. Mass Audubon is pleased to offer these tried-and-true methods for studying Phragmites, vegetation, fish, and salinity in salt marshes! 

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Data Nuggets

During 2015 Mass Audubon’s Salt Marsh Science Project (SMS) and Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (PIE-LTER) began involvement via our Schoolyard K-12 education program with the Michigan State University NSF sponsored Data Nuggets activity. Data Nuggets are created to bring real data from current and ongoing research into the classroom and take students through the process of science, from the inception of ideas to the analysis and interpretation of data.

Examples and links to PIE LTER Schoolyard K-12 education program associated Data Nuggets.

Can a salt marsh recover after restoration?*

Can mudsnails disrupt a salt marsh foodweb?

Does sea level rise harm Saltmarsh Sparrows?

Keeping up with Sea Level Rise

Invasive Reeds in the Salt Marsh*

Is your salt marsh in the zone?

Make Way For Mummichogs*

Marsh Makeover

Urbanization and Estuary Eutrophication

Additional Data Nuggets Based on Great Marsh Research

Green Crabs: Invaders in the Great Marsh

* Based on SMS Student Data.

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