Ecosystem Health: Checking the Vital Signs of a Maine Watershed

How healthy are your local ecosystems? Students use a variety of health indicators to investigate and assess the health of a local upland, freshwater, or coastal system. They share conclusions and fresh ideas with local planners and resource managers in their communities, and report their findings more broadly to the scientific community through the Vital Signs website.

This unit of study is also available here:
Ecosystem Health: Checking the Vital Signs of a Maine Watershed
(http://vitalventure.gmri.org/watershed-experiences/ecosystem-health/)
GMRI's Watershed Experiences get students outside to observe, ask questions, investigate, take action, and deepen their scientific understanding and connection to their local watersheds. They begin with a current environmental issue and research question of direct meaning and importance to students and local communities.

Project Information
Grade Level: 
Middle school (grades 6-8)
High school (grades 9-12)
How should others reference your work?: 
vitalteach, "Ecosystem Health: Checking the Vital Signs of a Maine Watershed," Vital Signs Program, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, April 2011
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