LSI: Life Science Investigation - Fighting on the Front Lines (7 of 9)

Investigation 6- "Fighting on the Front Lines." The Asian carp first entered the Mississippi River system in the early 1990s and are now, twenty years later, within striking distance of Lake Michigan. What has happened in these waterways since the Asian carp got in? Can what happened in these waterways happen in Lake Erie? What is being done to prevent Asian Carp from getting into Lake Michigan? For educational materials and resources for the classroom, visit http://www.ideastream.org/lsi/front.

LSI: Life Science Investigation- Attack of the Alien Invaders (http://www.ideastream.org/lsi) is an award-winning multimedia classroom resource which utilizes the recent news story of the "Asian carp" threat to the Great Lakes as a way to hook students into a better understanding of the life science benchmarks and indicators contained within Ohio's middle grade science standards.

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Education

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• LSI
• science
• life science
• ecology
• environment
• Ohio
• Lake Erie
• education
• invasive species
• Asian carp
• Mississippi River
• Fish