Addressing Aquatic Invasive Species

Original date: February 2, 2016

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Presenters: Bob Thomson and Brook Schryer

Description: Tackling aquatic invasives species (AIS) presents special challenges for educators. Bob Thomson uses inquiry methods with a place-based format to ensure that students are participants in the educational process. AIS allows his students to develop their informational reading skills on a subject that they can research and create informational essays and presentations that they can use to inform the community on ways to prevent the spread of AIS.  They also do research projects focused on understanding the impact of invasive species impact, in cooperation with local agencies.  Brook Schryer will introduce the Grades 4 & 6 curriculum units developed by the Invading Species Awareness Program of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters.

Bob Thomson has been developing environmental research projects with his students for the past ten years from third grade to twelfth grade. His students have researched the impact of invasive mussel on shipwrecks with underwater robots and conducted population analysis on individual invasive species in the Thunder Bay watershed. Currently teaching at Ella White Elementary in Alpena, Michigan.

Brook Schryer is the Aquatic Invasive Species Outreach Liaison with the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters and their Invading Species Awareness Program. Among his educational outreach activities, he reaches out to all ages with presentations, demonstrations, printed informational materials, monitoring, and stewardship activities. He works out of the OFAH’s offices in Peterborough, Ontario.