Spring Sails and Ecological Tales
Spring aboard our schooners welcomed not just a season of warmer breezes and budding landscapes, but also a vibrant classroom that is unlike any other. As we set sail on...
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What’s Not In The Job Description
During a recent job interview, I was asked to provide an example of a time I demonstrated flexibility or effectively navigated a rapidly changing situation. I shared my experience teaching...
Spring Schoolship: A Season in Review
Spring is one of the most magical times of the year: The warming of the air, and, albeit much slower, the water; the blossoming of buds on trees; the emergence...
Teachers Keep Learning with ISEA
What do teachers have in common with their students? Learning. Both are always learning and many teachers go into the field of teaching because they love to learn. (It doesn’t...
Adapting to Invasives: How the Great Lakes are adjusting to Dreissenid mussels
By Rachel Ratliff & Mariah Cox It has been 30 some odd years since the Dreissenid cousins made their homes in our lovely Great Lakes. Maybe you’ve heard of them,...
ISEA Café: Benthos
Benthos: the living things on and in the sediment at the bottom of the lake, river or stream. When the Inland Seas staff and instructors gathered in March to catch...
ISEA Café: Plankton
Inland Seas volunteers and staff gathered in the Education Center to talk about Plankton. Here’s what we learned about types of plankton, methods for identification, and what counts as a...
ISEA Café: Fish
Inland Seas volunteers gathered around the square table at Inland Seas to talk about fish – despite the fact that there is no such thing as a fish. What follows...