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?
Urbanization and Estuary Eutrophication
Additional Data Nuggets Based on Great Marsh Research
Green Crabs: Invaders in the Great Marsh
* Based on SMS Student Data.
Other Related Websites
- PIE-LTER Schoolyard K-12 education program (Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research)
- Gulf of Maine Institute
- Eight Towns and the Great Marsh (hosted by the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission)
- The Great Marsh Coalition