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Hamline University's Center for Global Environmental Education (CGEE) is pleased to offer teachers a suite of free, award-winning online resources about America's greatest waterway for students in grades 4-8. Our acclaimed Waters to the Sea® Mississippi River Adventure provides standards-based, in-depth multimedia learning in a Story Map format that supports learners as they take a deep dive into STEAM, history, geography, and cultural explorations about the great river. The hour-long Mighty Mississippi electronic field trip and broadcast documentary, co-produced with PBS affiliate WYES New Orleans, introduces science and social-studies topics illuminated by experts and guided by a group of student reporters. The two resources are designed to reinforce and complement each other.

Waters to the Sea® Mississippi River Adventure: http://waterstothesea.org/mississippi
Mighty Mississippi: http://electronic-field-trip.wyes.org

Waters to the Sea® Mississippi River Adventure

Waters to the Sea® Mississippi River Adventure offers a rich assortment of time-tested, standards-based interactive multimedia learning resources and activities that students love. This go-deeper program, which has won international acclaim, brings multiple subjects to life using ESRI's Story Map format.

• Find content by subject matter and media type
• The NGSS matrix aligns media and learning modules with learning standards
• Dynamic map explorations are blended with rich multimedia storytelling
• Dozens of short videos and interactive 360 VR landscape panoramas
• Interactive modules about engineering, ecology, chemistry, social studies, and the arts

The Mighty Mississippi

The Mighty Mississippi has been enriching learning nationwide as a web-streamed virtual field trip and PBS broadcast documentary. The program, which won a 2019 National Educational Television Association award, can be viewed on Twin Cities Public Television in April and via the web anytime. Four high school students introduce historians, engineers, river-boat captains, ecologists, wildlife experts and others in this hour-long, Headwaters to Gulf journey.

• Explore the Mississippi Headwaters with a Minnesota DNR naturalist
• Learn about the urban river in Minneapolis and St. Paul with the National Park Service
• Travel back in time 11,000 years and follow the incredible geological journey of St. Anthony Falls
• Visit a giant physical model of the Mississippi River Delta used by scientists
• Upcoming TPT Minnesota Channel (2.2) broadcasts: April 5, 9 p.m.; April 12, 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Also check out these great learning resources from CGEE:

• More than 100 videos on CGEE's YouTube Channel and Playlists: https://www.hamline.edu/education/cgee/projects/youtube-playlists.html
• CGEE's extensive online multimedia portfolio: https://www.hamline.edu/education/cgee/projects.html