Volunteer Shipboard Educator Workshop & Training

1. Volunteer Shipboard Educator Workshop & Training Saturday, April 5th, 2014 9:00 am to 3:00 pm

2. Today’s Agenda Morning Schedule Afternoon Schedule 9:00 – 9:15 - Introductions & Agenda 9:15 – 9:30 - What is Shipboard Education? 9:30 - 10:00 - BaySail Schooners Appledore 10:00 – 10:30 – Science under Sail Overview 10:30 – 11:00 – History under Sail Overview 11:00 – 11:30 – Other Education Sails 11:30 – 12:00 – Lunch 12:00 – 12:30 - Great Lakes Ecology Basics 12:30 – 1:00 - The Saginaw Bay Watershed 1:00 - 1:30 - Elementary Student Journals 1:30 – 2:00 – Changes to Middle School & High School Journals 2:00 – 2:30 – Overview of Shipboard Lessons & Handout Volunteer Training Manuals 2:30 – 3:00 - Sign Up for next week’s Volunteer Training Week Workshops & Field Trips

3. Examples of Shipboard Science & Environmental Education http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/great-lakes-education-program/ BaySail Schooners Appledore Michigan Sea Grant Great Lakes Education Programs • Play 2 minute Science under Sail video from a few years back. Each 3.5 hour half day field trip costs $850, for a class of not more than 35 ($24 per person!). Trips booked in Spring in May to mid-June, and Fall in Sept to mid-October. Summer trips too. • Inland Seas Education Association –Suttons Bay http://schoolship.org/schoolprograms/school-science-field-trips What is the Great Lakes Education Program? • The program introduces fourth-grade students to the unique features of the Great Lakes through a combination of classroom learning and hands-on experience. It is designed to stimulate interest in the Great Lakes and help students understand their role in protecting these vital freshwater resources. Three Components • Classroom introduction to Great Lakes. Students learn about concepts such as the aquatic food web, the water cycle, the roles of oxygen and carbon dioxide, and the effects of invasive species. • Field trip on the water. Cruises provide an opportunity for hands-on experience: students examine plankton samples, test water clarity, practice marine knot tying, take temperature readings, and more. Classes leave from one of two locations. • Macomb County – 2.5-hour educational cruise on the Clinton River and Lake St. Clair. • Wayne County – 2-hour educational cruise on Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River. • Follow-up classroom experiments and discussion. Using data they’ve collected on the field trip, students conduct experiments and discuss what they’ve learned. • http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/great-lakes-education-program/about

4. BaySail & the Schooners Appledore Schooners Appledore IV & V Programs & Future Saginaw Bay Environmental Education Center • BaySail’s mission is education, but we also provide public dinner sails, including Dinner Sails with Hoolie, Stargazer and Moonlight Dinner sails with astronomers from the Delta College Planetarium. • Legends of the Saginaw historical sails with a box lunch. • Fireworks Dinner Sails around the 4th of July. • Family Ecology Sails, and other Community Outreach Education Sails. • Currently there is a Capital Campaign to raise money to build a Saginaw Bay Environmental Education Center in Essexville closer to the mouth of the Saginaw River on land that the Coast Guard donated to BaySail. BaySail is a non-profit 501(c)3 environmental education organization with the mission of fostering environmental stewardship of the Saginaw Bay Watershed and Great Lakes ecology. We have been in Bay City with the schooner Appledore IV since 1998, and purchased the schooner Appledore V in 2002. www.baysailbaycity.org is the website. We are now on Facebook and Twitter.

5. Science under Sail Place –based Learning & Project-based Inquiry Science Hands-on, Experiential Environmental Education using Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) • Discovering Place at UM Flint HUB https://www.umflint.edu/outreach/programs/pbe-videos.page • Flint River GREEN Watershed Coalition http://flintriver.org/blog/programs/flint-river-green/ • Earthforce and Global Rivers Environmental Education Network http://www.earthforce.org/?q=GMGREEN • Place-based Education , and the new Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative HUBshttps://www.umflint.edu/sites/default/files/groups/University_Outreach/assets/place/outreach-intro.pdf • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7yIcs4_jMI • http://www.videoproject.com/growingupgreen.html • http://resources.spaces3.com/89c197bf-e630-42b0-ad9a-91f0bc55c72d.pdf Description of National Environmental Education Standards & Benchmarks • http://resources.spaces3.com/e3448928-b1a6-4769-937d-981ce23e94ff.pdfNAEE Standards • Freshwater Ecology & Environmental Science • 97% of the Earth’s water is salt water ocean! • Only 3% is freshwater, of which most is deep underground or frozen in the polar caps – 1% is available for use! • The Great Lakes contains 6 quadrillion gallons (22.7 quadrillion liters) of freshwater – 84% of all the freshwater in North America & 21% of the World’s freshwater! • The total area of all 5 Great Lakes (acronym HOMES: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior) is 5,500 cubic miles, with a shoreline extending 10,210 miles. The total surface area of the Great Lakes is 94,000 sq miles which is larger than the area of New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hampshire combined! • The Saginaw Bay Watershed is the largest contagious (connected) in Michigan & the largest coastal freshwater wetland in the US with 8,700 sq miles in 22 counties – 15% of Michigan – with over 1 million people in 375 townships, villages, and cities benefiting from the watershed system. • It is also one of 43 Great Lake’s Areas of Concern with beneficial use impairments from 200 years of use & abuse - point source and non-point source pollution, and severe degradation of water, land, and air resources. • Mr Great Lakes: Jeff Kart, Website & Radio Blogs http://mrgreatlakes.com/ • http://www.environmentreport.org/ • Saginaw Watershed Initiative Network • http://www.saginawbaywin.org/ • Saginaw Bay Coastal Initiative • http://www.baycounty-mi.gov/executive/saginawbaycoastalinitiativesbci.aspx

6. History under Sail Bay City & Michigan History • Bay City is known for 3 things – ask Dick what those 3 things are during lunch. • Bay City is the largest city on the shore of Lake Huron – famous for being the Lumber Capital of the World in 1880s. • Lumber, Ships, and Barrels – to haul fish packed in salt shipped around Great Lakes and World. Great Lakes ships also carried furs, iron ore, copper, limestone, coal, livestock, grain, produce, & people!

7. Bay City History Schooners & Shipping

8. Other Education Programs … Youth Groups, Families, Community, Public Sails, and Charter Sails Shore-based Programs • EcoSail Programs– just like Science under Sail, but priced for smaller youth groups, $30/participant with 20 person minimum and includes combo of science & nautical lessons. • Main Sail Programs 3 ½ hour half day trips, $30/participant also. Focus on sailing, knots, and navigation – with out science sampling. • Community Outreach Programs – specialized lessons and narrations for particular needs of each group. For example – water technicians & farmers with the Michigan Agricultural Environment Assurance Program on MAEAP Sails; Families and kids on Family Ecology Sails; teachers getting continuing education credits on summer. Teacher Workshop Sails • Public and Charter Sails requesting an educator to give either an Historical or Environmental Issues Narration, or Both, and sometimes also do plankton, benthic, water quality testing. • Knot Tying at the 2013 Bay City Tall Ships Celebration. • “Wonders of Water” Earth Day Festival at the Midland Center for the Arts, April 12th, 2014 9 am-3 pm • Eric & Morgan Wallace, Jennifer Ackers & I will help visitors explore our new Enviroscape Watershed Model and the effects of pollution. • SVSU’sSMEK Summer Camp Field Study of Wetland Macro-Invertebrates • Mondays during the weeks of: July 14-17, 2014 & July 28-31, 2014

9. Lunch! Subs & Pop Find Out … • Ask Dick, what 3 things Bay City was known for during the wild lumbering days of the late 1800s? • Which volunteer is an award winning author who has been on the New York Times Best-Seller List? • Who has a blind dog with no eyes who greets school groups on the dock? • Which volunteer drove the farthest to get here? • Who has sailed and crewed on the most Tall Ships? • Who has sailed the furthest distance around the world? • Who has volunteered with Bay Sail the longest? How many years? • Where did the name Appledore come from?

10. Great Lakes Ecology Freshwater Water & Abundant Natural Resources Human Impact on the Environment & Areas of Concern • www.glerl.noaa.gov/seagrant/GLWL/GLWLife.html • Freshwater aquatic life! • http://www.epa.gov/greatlakes/atlas/glat-ch1.html • US EPA’s Great Lakes Atlas • http://www.great-lakes.net/lakes/ref/huronfact.html • Great lakes Information Network’s Lake Huron Facts & Figures • http://www.epa.gov/greatlakes/lakehuron/lake-huron-lamp-2013-eng.pdf • Lake Huron Binational Partnership, Annual Report 2013 • https://ww.michigan.gov/documents/deq/State_of_the_Great_Lakes_2013_opt_442885_7.pdf • 2013 State of the Great Lakes • https://www.michigan.gov/documents/deq/State_of_the_Great_Lakes_2012_405640_7.pdf • 2012 State of the Great Lakes

11. The Saginaw Bay Watershed Industrial Past & Impacts 14 Beneficial Use Impairments “How does it affects us?” “What have we done?!” http://www.ijc.org/rel/boards/annex2/buis.htm#table1 1. Restrictions on consumption of fish & wildlife 2. Tainted fish & wildlife flavor 3. Degraded fish & wildlife populations 4. Fish tumors and other deformities 5. Bird or animal deformities & reproductive problems 6. Degradation of benthos (bottom sediment) 7. Restrictions on dredging 8. Eutrophication and harmful algae 9. Restrictions on drinking water – taste, odor, quality. 10. Beach closings – from Sanitary Sewer Overflows (E. Coli) 11. Degradation of aesthetics 12. Added cost to agriculture & industry 13. Degradation of Phytoplankton & Zooplankton 14. Loss of Fish & Wildlife Habitat

12. Student Journals Elementary - Grades 3-5 Middle School- Grades 6-8 • The Elementary Lessons are all the same as last year … • … Except for the Upriver Water Quality Lesson. • Simplify the Water Quality Lesson – have the elementary kids work in pairs using the White Water Monitoring Cups to measure water temperature and turbidity. [Remember they are just learning their numbers and how to count and measure, walk them through it.] • Have kids do the White Water Cup D.O.and pH if time, if they breeze through temperature and turbidity. Accurate & precise measuring is the target skill area. • Educator will measure water temperature more precisely with the alpha water bottle thermometer and turbidity with the colorimeter. • Basically the same as Elementary and last year…. • …Downriver Weather Lesson is different. • NO Cup and Cork experiment! • Middle School students will predict the day’s weather forecast using the Weather Cycler Chart. • Upriver Water Quality Lesson can be more advanced (than with elementary kids). • Have pairs of Middle School kids use the white Water Monitoring Cups to measure and record water temperature, turbidity, DO, & pH (if time). • Educator will use the colorimeter to more precisely measure turbidity, pH, and nitrates – for kids to compare their measurements with. • DO NOT do Winkler Reaction for DO, unless it is a special request from the teacher. • DO NOT have kids spit or measure the pH of their own saliva. They will do this at school.

13. High School Journal Changes – Grades 9-12 Weather Lesson replaced with Natural Resources Lesson! Two 20 min Water Testing Lessons – Water Quality & Water Science ! • Downriver Lessons- 20 minutes each • River Communities – looking at and thinking about natural river communities and how humans are part of this community, using (and abusing) natural resources to live, work, and play. • Watershed Ecology – Human impact on the environment with typical river observations and point source/non-point source pollution, with addition of Saginaw Bay Watershed Information & importance of wetlands: marshes, swamps, fens, and bogs – for absorbing water & filtering runoff, preventing floods, providing habitat for wildlife, and food & recreation for hunters, fishers, tourists, etc. • Knots & Navigation taught by Captain & Crew. • Upriver Lessons – 20 minutes each • Plankton & Fish Lesson is basically the same below deck, but with 2 microscopes – one for educator and a second on the table for students to use to make and view their own slides (with help from educator). • Also look at Great Lakes Food Web and discuss Great Lakes Fish & “Eating Safe Fish” and Invasive Exotic Species. • Water Quality Lesson, with replace the Benthic Lesson – quickly look at Benthic Sediment Sample, but use it as an intro to discuss runoff into the river , measure Turbidity and Nitrates (if time). • Water Chemistry Lesson will measure only water temperature & dissolved oxygen, and pH (if time). [NO SPIT! Don’t do pH of saliva!]

14. Overview of Shipboard Lessons Volunteer Responsibilities Student Goals & Objectives • Dress for the weather, bring extra clothes, dress in layers. Bring water, coffee, snacks, and sack lunch – there is a refrigerator and microwave , galley and head on the ship. • If you are a new volunteer please shadow another volunteer 1-3 times until you feel comfortable teaching. Your 2nd & 3rd time shadowing - try team teaching. • Arrive at ship at least 30 minutes before trip departure time – to bring lesson kit and materials up on deck. • Find out age and group size – get clipboards, pencils, journals ready for your group. Sharpen pencils!!!! • Each volunteer will supervise and teach one group of 8-12 kids in grades 3-12. Ensure your kids are okay & safe! • Trips are 3.5 hours long and sail rain or shine, only cancelled if dangerous weather like t-storms, high winds (+15 mph) or dense fog. • Stay with your group at all times, unless with another Appeldore Teacher, Crew, or School Chaperone. • Make sure they have a comfortable and safe field trip; and know what they are doing, where they are going, and behaving appropriately, respectfully, and safely – but are also having fun and enjoying themselves. • After each sail make sure your areas are clean and materials organized for next sail, or cleanly, neatly, stowed away at end of day. • Record hours in Log Book – 4.5 hours for one trip, and 9 hours for both morning & afternoon. • Study the Volunteer Training Manual to learn more! • Hands-on outdoor experiences of the freshwater ecology of the Saginaw River and Saginaw Bay that allow kids to make their own observations, explorations, and inquiries about the natural world, and most importantly how we are all connected to the Saginaw Bay Watershed and the Great Lakes. • Kids are encouraged and expected to ask questions, wonder, and think critically about what they are seeing and learning! • Use the Student Journal as a Guide Book, and a place to record observations and measurements – but don’t keep your noses in it. Look around, use teachable moments, and let the Saginaw River and nature be the teacher!

15. Shipboard Lessons Down River Lessons Bay Sampling & Up River Lessons • River Communities, including Humans & Human Impact on the Environment: Point Source & Non-point Source Pollution • Weather & Climate • Knots & Navigation • Natural Resources • Petite Ponar Dredge • Plankton Net • Alpha Water Bottle • Benthic Organisms & Invasive Species • Plankton & Food Webs • Water Quality (turbidity, nitrates) & Water Science (temperature, DO, pH)

16. Sign Up for Volunteer Training Week Workshops Morning 9-11 am or Evening 5-8 pm Workshops on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Field Trips • Optional Workshops – • Monday April 7th – Invasive Species & Benthic Dredging of Sediments in River. • Wednesday April 9th – Wet Wednesday, Water Testing with new Water Cups and Colorimeters, and learning how to use the new Enviroscape Watershed Model! • Thursday Afternoon April 10th – Revised Legends of the Saginaw River Talks and Photographs • Bring a sack lunch, and stay for the afternoon field trip. • Monday Afternoon April 7th – Field Trip to the future Saginaw Bay Environmental Education Center in Essexville for lessons on and collection of invasive species. • Tuesday Afternoon, April 8th – Great Lakes Ecology @ Delta College Planetarium. • Wednesday Afternoon April 9th – Visit the Saginaw Bay Visitor Center at Bay City State Recreation Area. • Thursday Morning April 10th – Visit and Tour of the History Museum of Bay County - Free. Meet at BaySail Office @ 8:30 am • Friday Morning April 11th – Long drive to Saginaw to visit, tour, and guided nature walk at the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge . Meet at BaySail Office @ 8:30 am

17. Saginaw Bay Community sailing Association (SBCSA) April 5th Fundraiser at the Masonic Temple @ 7:00 pm Saginaw Bay Community Sailing Association (SBCSA) • http://www.sbcsa.org/winetasting/ • Live Music • Wine & Cheese • Raffle • Fundraiser • http://www.sbcsa.org/ • Youth & Adult Sailing Classes