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Great
Lakes Maritime Transportation Programs
Archive
2006
2006
Teacher Institute Week I Itinerary
2006
Teacher Institute Week 2 Itinerary
Week
I Slide Show
Week
2 Slide Show
2006
Lesson Plans & Teaching Units
What
Students Need to Know About Great Lakes Maritime Transportation
(PDF)
K-12
Maritime Transportation Glossary (PDF)
K-12
Maritime Transportation Teaching Resources
Maritime
Transportation Teaching Resources List (PDF)
Maritime
Transportation System Report - Stewart (PDF)
Did
You Know Quiz? (PDF)
Did
You Know Quiz? ANSWERS
Maritime
Transportation Pre-/Post Test (Pregitzer) (PDF)
Maritime
Transportation Pre-/Post ANSWERS (Pregitzer) (PDF)
Photo
of Class
LINKS
Duluth
Seaway Port Authority
Class Photos
(Picture
of the teachers from Week I on Friday morning watching them load
a freighter in Duluth)
Great
Lakes Maritime Research Institute
U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District Website
Soo
Locks Webcam
Duluth
Harbor Webcam
COSEE
Great Lakes program
Duluth Harbor
Soo
Locks 
Duluth Harbor
Duluth Harbor
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Archive 2006
Great
Lakes Maritime Transportation
Teacher Institute
Week 1: July 24-28, 2006 (west end of Lake Superior)
Week 2: July 31-Aug. 4, 2006 (east end of Lake Superior)
Summer Institutes
Why
Learn About Great Lakes Maritime Transportation?
Did you know?
- A 1000-foot
"laker" can hold enough iron taconite pellets to make 15,000 cars?
- 90% of the
United State's iron ore used to produce steel is shipped on the
Great Lakes?
- The top three cargoes on Great Lakes ships (in
order) are pelletized iron ore, stone (mostly limestone), coal.
Other important cargo includes grain, cement, salt and liquid-bulk
products.
- One 1000-foot
vessel can carry the cargo of six 100-car trains or 2,308 one-ton
trucks! Ships use a lot less energy and cause a lot less pollution.
Photo of Class
Teachers
participating in Week 2 of the Great Lakes Maritime Transportation
Institute pose with a mammoth haul truck at Cleveland Cliffs Iron
Ore Mine in Ishpeming, MI (left to right): Kelly Bolen, Susan
Howey, Craig Croone, Deb Zolynsky, Judy Vittito, Margaux Parino,
Bob Vandevusse, Kate Roll, Dan Kust, Sarah Pregitzer, Lisa Bircher,
and Harry Bircher. Pelletized iron is shipped from the Lake Superior
ports of Duluth, MN and Marquette, MI to steel mills in Sault
Ste. Marie, Detroit, Cleveland, Gary, and Pittsburgh.
Sponsors
This
institute was made possible by a grant from the
Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute (http://www.glmri.org)
with funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation
Co-Sponsors
and Contributors include:
- University
of Wisconsin-Superior, Michigan Technological University Transportation
Institute,
- Western
Upper Peninsula Center for Science, Mathematics and Environmental
Education,
- Michigan
Tech Center for Water and Society, Minnesota/Wisconsin Seagrant,
- and the
Duluth Seaway Port Authority
Brochure
(PDF)
DESCRIPTION
Week 1: July
24-28, 2006 (west end of Lake Superior)
Week 2: July 31-Aug. 4, 2006 (east end of Lake Superior)
Course
Overview
This will be a unique “traveling course” that will
take teachers to Duluth and Two Harbors, MN and Superior, WI during
Week 1, and to Marquette, Munising, Sault Ste. Marie and Escanaba
during Week 2, in order to address a broad overview of Great Lakes
maritime transportation topics. The institute will provide unique
and exciting hands-on experiences investigating economic and environmental
issues of Great Lakes shipping (history of maritime transportation,
mechanics of a lock system, navigation, harbor dredging, toxic
sediments, aquatic invasive species control, and more. Participants
may choose to attend one or both weeks. All participants are expected
to engage in all course activities.
The goal of
the Institute is to provide participating teachers with a foundation
in maritime transportation---its history, current operations,
and future challenges---to facilitate development of standards-based
lessons in science, math, and social studies. These lessons will
become part of the Great Lakes Maritime Educators Guide to be
widely distributed throughout Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
Lessons will be posted on the Great Lakes Maritime Research Institute
(GLMRI) website and be used in a traveling trunk of teaching resources
for classrooms.
Topics
to be Addressed:
Questions to be Addressed at the Institute
What raw materials and products are shipped on the Great Lakes?
What are the major ports on the Great Lakes?
What makes a safe, accessible harbor?
Why is Great Lakes shipping preferable to railroad or highway
transportation?
Who works on Great Lakes freighters?
How do ships navigate the Great Lakes?
How do ships negotiate lakes of different elevations?
How is ship design changing?
What are the safety issues of traveling on the Great Lakes? What
causes shipwrecks?
What are the Homeland Security issues?
What are the problems and benefits of shipping for communities?
How is Great Lakes shipping managed?
Accommodations
During Week 1, participants will stay in the dorms at University
of Minnesota Duluth. During Week 2, participants will stay in
motels along the way.
Transportation
All transportation to sites during the institute will be provided.
Week 1
The course will begin at noon Monday of Week 1 in Duluth. Participants
may travel by Michigan Tech van from Houghton to Duluth on Monday
morning or meet at University of Minnesota Duluth.
Week 2
The course will meet and depart from Michigan Tech University
in Houghton, MI at 9 am on Monday of Week 2. Participants will
travel by MTU van to Marquette, Munising, Sault Ste. Marie, Escanaba
and back to Houghton.
Websites
Western U.P. Center for Science, Math & Environmental Education
Michigan Technological
University: www.mtu.edu
Tourism information: http://www.thekeweenaw.com
Submit applications
by email or postal mail to:
Joan Schumaker-Chadde, Coordinator
Western U.P. Center for Science, Math & Environmental Education
105 Dillman Hall -Michigan Tech University
1400 Townsend Dr., Houghton, MI 49931
Tel: 906-487-3341 Fax: 906-487-1620
Email: jchadde@mtu.edu
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