This engaging curriculum gives students the opportunity to learn from scientists from the Great Lakes WATER Institute, National Geographic, Ocean Exploration Trust, and NOAA. Students will investigate the health of our current environment and discover how to protect our planet’s most diverse ecosystems from natural disasters, climate change, and other environmental phenomena.
Operation: Resilient Planet includes interactive games, high quality videos, and immersive missions that not only teach key science concepts, but also gives students the unique opportunity to immerse themselves in real life environmental situations where they are responsible to:
- Investigate alien invaders in the Great Lakes
- Protect whales in the Atlantic Ocean
- Discover why there are so many sharks on the reefs of Hawaii
- Snorkel over a coral reef in the Gulf of Mexico
Appropriate Grade Levels:
Innovatively designed to be appropriate for upper elementary, middle school, and high school levels. Rigorously aligned to national and state science standards as well as mathematics, social studies, and English language arts standards, and national curriculum standards including NCTM, IB, and ISTE.
