GMRI Science Learning Resources — connecting classrooms to authentic science experiences.

Featured Curriculum

We design science learning resources to support educators to engage their students in authentic and current science about climate and ecosystem change.

Coastal Flooding Community Science: Getting Started

Build understanding of sea level rise while getting students involved in local efforts to document and prepare for coastal flooding

Community Science | Module

Coastal Flooding and Sea Level Rise: Understanding, Monitoring and Action

Sea level rise is a global phenomenon that is affecting communities throughout the world, including those along the Gulf of Maine. What causes this flooding and how can communities monitor, respond to and plan for these events?

Sea Level Rise | Module

Hemlock Woolly Adelgid - Just do it!

Join our efforts to protect hemlock trees from an aggressive forest pest by contributing to Project Hemlock Woolly Adelgid

Community Science | Module

Protecting Ash: A Preservation Focused Inventory Project

Ash trees, and brown ash in particular, are critical to forest ecosystem health and to the cultural lifeways of Wabanaki people who have been stewarding this species for thousands of years. The impacts of climate change and the emerald ash borer have the potential to eliminate ash from our region. Working together, we can preserve ash trees and the ecosystems and cultural traditions that rely on them.

Community Science | Module

Local Seafood in Maine Schools

Learn about the importance of seafood across communities and cultures and celebrate its environmental, economic and nutritional benefits.

Food Systems | Module

Models, Food Webs, and a Warming Gulf of Maine

Explore some of the potential impacts of warming oceans on phytoplankton and marine food webs using models and locally-focused datasets to plan for the future.

LabVenture | Module

A Warming Gulf of Maine: Investigating Impacts on Predators and Prey

As ocean temperatures warm, the productivity and distribution of species is changing, potentially disrupting long-standing predator/prey relationships in The Gulf of Maine. Investigate these changes and what they could mean for the ecosystem.

LabVenture | Module

Potato Farming in Maine's Changing Climate

Farmers throughout the region are facing new challenges due to Maine’s changing climate and are responding through innovation and collaboration to build more climate resilient crops.

Food Systems | Module

Ecosystem Observer

Support students in developing scientific observations through connecting content knowledge to field experiences.

Findings from the Field | Module

Maple Sugaring in a Warming Climate

How is climate change impacting maple syrup production and what can we do to plan for a climate resilient future in the region?

Food Systems | Module

Bees, Blueberries, and Climate Change

Analyze current and local data on blueberry production, native bee populations, and spring temperatures to explore how climate change may be affecting Maine's iconic wild blueberries.

Food Systems | Module

LabVenture Recap

Build on learning from LabVenture with a game that models the impacts of changing temperatures in the Gulf of Maine.

LabVenture | Lesson

Ocean Warming: Lobsters and Black Sea Bass

Why are new species showing up in the Gulf of Maine? Investigate changes linked to warming waters.

LabVenture | Module

Ticks, Lyme Disease, and Climate Change

Investigate how climate change may be affecting the life cycle of ticks and their ability to spread disease.

LabVenture | Module

Schedule a field trip to LabVenture

Every year, students from each of Maine’s 16 counties participate in LabVenture, at no cost to the students or school districts. If you are a 5th or 6th grade teacher in Maine and would like your students to attend LabVenture, register now.

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Want to engage students with community science?

We've designed community science projects specifically geared toward teachers and students. GMRI has also developed corresponding curriculum for each project accessible from the project pages.

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Serving Maine's teachers through inquiry-based science curriculum

The Gulf of Maine Research Institute has created compelling curriculum for teachers of middle school students that connects classroom learning to authentic scientific experiences for students. Whether you’re visiting our lab or conducting field work in your own neighborhood, our curriculum is specifically designed to advance your students’ skills in science. Not sure where to start? Email us at [email protected] and we can help find the resources right for you and your students. Unless otherwise noted, this material is released under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. This license permits users to remix, transform, and build upon the material and to redistribute with attribution to GMRI for noncommercial uses only. If you remix, transform, or building upon the material, you must distribute your material under the same license as the original.