Susan Haskell

Hi Livia and Laura, This is an interesting topic. I thought of 2 more misconceptions that people generally have about invasive species, but I’m not sure whether you want to include them or not: 1) People are always aware when they are introducing an invasive species 2) Invasive species are mean (as in not nice) […]

Hi Kathrine and Amelia, My 6th graders absolutely LOVE making boats, and the extension to the boats sinking in the harbor is a good one. I’m concerned about the materials ~ Liza already mentioned the salt water issue with clay ~ have you thought about using aluminum foil instead of clay. It creates great boats. […]

Hi Jenny and Charlene. I posted this last night, but can’t seem to see it today, so I’m thinking I messed up. If you already read this post, just ignore…. I really like your idea of using tidal charts and real-time data in your activity, I’m just having trouble understanding what that is going to […]

Hi Rachel and Kate, this sounds like a fun, messy activity. Please make sure you have precautions in place so the oil spill doesn’t spill over to participants clothing ~ also will participants need protection for their hands or will there be some way to clean up those cleaning up the spill? I was wondering […]

Melissa and Kyle: I really like the activity you’ve chosen ~ to highlight the fact that most marine pollution comes from land. Please be careful when using the word pollution that you don’t limit it to just floating trash. Without getting into the whole eutrophication process, maybe you can include excess fertilizer running off into […]