From Wednesday August 8 through the 14th you can follow along as 16 educators from Minnesota and Wisconsin share their adventures and discoveries on the three-masted schooner, the Denis Sullivan as they sail Lake Michigan. During the cruise they will... Read More →
Today was a day of learning and getting to know each other. We spent the day at the School of Freshwater Sciences on the UW-Milwaukee campus. Our day was filled with several guest speakers and participating in inquiry based activities.... Read More →
August 9, 2018 – Day 2 This morning we woke up, packed up all of our gear into the vehicles and took off for Discovery World! All thirty-three of us full of excitement and anticipation for what was to come... Read More →
By Bo and Mariah Here’s what happened today. The morning started off with a hot cup of coffee and homemade blueberry pancakes. After breakfast, the watch groups went to work: soles and bowls, KP duty, and zooplankton sampling. Once we... Read More →
By Sherry and Kellie The day both started and ended like something you’d see on a beach towel J (Or in your dreams of faraway places – editorial comment by Cindy). ... Read More →
Here we are on a wooden sailboat!! Our days have been filled with a plethora of Great Lakes education. People are discussing the hopes they have for incorporating all they have learned into their lesson and unit plans. It has... Read More →
It was 2:45 in the morning and a voice inside my head rang out telling us it was time to get up and prepare to depart. I thought it was a dream. As my eyes began to open, I realized... Read More →
Bittersweet. One journey is at an end, but another journey is just beginning. We spent last night in fellowship with the S/V Denis Sullivan crew, and gathered one last time this morning to reflect, share, laugh, cry, and to begin... Read More →
By Nikki C. Day 1 on the Denis Sullivan So far the nervous anticipation has given way to impatient anticipation. They said the time on the ship was like an airport, hurry up and wait, hurry up and wait some... Read More →