Great Lakes maritime education program for K-12 teachers.

PDFTech ReportCFIRE 04-02Maritime industryEducationTeachersStudentsMathematicsTechnologyEngineeringScienceMichiganNational Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (U.S.)Chadde, JoanMichigan Technological University. Dept. of Civil and Environmental EngineeringUnited States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology AdministrationNTL-MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION-MARINE/WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATIONNTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-EducationUS Transportation CollectionMichigan Technological University has led an educational/outreach effort for the Great Lake Maritime Research Institute since 2006.Despite Michigan Tech\ue2\u20ac\u2122s relative isolation and long distance from most locations in the Great Lakes Basin, every state in the Basinhas been touched with some aspect of the outreach program.The overall goal of the project is to increase K-12 teachers\ue2\u20ac\u2122 understanding of shipping on the Great Lakes, and increase their abilityto teach their students about Great Lakes Maritime Transportation in the core subjects of science, math, language arts, and socialstudies