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Education Resources for Teachers and Students
The Isle Royale Institute prioritizes providing educational resources and support for teachers and students. Our preference would be to bring teachers and students to Isle Royale, but with the limitations of transportation, funding, and a short visitor season in the park, it is often more efficient to bring Isle Royale to schools through a variety of outreach media and programs.
Teacher Courses
We are continually developing new teacher professional development courses both in the park and elsewhere around Lake Superior. Our goal is to help teachers incorporate inspiring Isle Royale topics into their classroom teaching, and utilize our expanding resources for all disciplines, from sciences to history, mathematics to creative writing. Through these courses, teachers also help us to develop new and expanded educational resources.
Courses offered in 2009
- June 14-20 Ecology of Isle Royale (at Isle Royale)
- June 21-27 Advanced Isle Royale Ecology by Sea Kayak (at Isle Royale)
- For other teachers’ courses of interest offered through Michigan Tech, click here
Curriculum
As part of our teacher training, K-12 teachers develop lessons using Isle Royale themes and current scientific data. These lessons are tied to national and state teaching standards. IRI and its partners are also continually developing new Isle Royale curriculum with assistance from graduate students and educational professionals, as well as identifying other curriculum resources applicable to Isle Royale. We encourage all teachers to use these resources creatively in their classrooms, as well as sharing new ideas.
- Lesson Plans from Isle Royale Ecology courses
- Winter Study Notes from the Field Lessons
- The International Wolf Center's Gray Wolves, Gray Matter
Student Opportunities
Student education courses available at Isle Royale National Park from other institutions include the following:
Come join us on Isle Royale National Park for a rigorous 4-credit introduction to environmental philosophy and nature writing. We will be camping in tents, cooking on camp stoves and living and working outside in all weather, learning from and with the natural environment. Through writing, discussion, group exercises and outdoor exploration, we will examine concepts of environmental ethics, talk about environmental issues, and engage local ecology and natural history. Pre-course reading and a post-course project will serve to make this connection to the material more concrete, though the focus of the class will be on developing personal and collective relationships to place and ideas, for the heart of environmental studies lies in the very environment we study. We will meet at the end of spring semester for a course orientation. Final projects will be due in early July.
- Field Interpretive Techniques
Offered by the University of Minnesota, Duluth. May 2009.
- Outdoor Philosophy
Michigan State University
NSC 490/FW 491
June 21st-28th, 2009
To apply, submit a 1-page essay explaining your interest in the course, your camping/ outdoor experience, and your academic interests and goals, as they relate to the course material, to Lissy Goralnik at goralnik@msu. No experience is necessary.
*Only apply if you can participate. Space is limited and enrollment is competitive.
For more information, contact the instructors:
Lissy Goralnik, goralnik@msu.edu or
Dr. Michael P. Nelson, mpnelson@msu.edu < web page >
Last updated: April 2, 2009
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