The Center for Great Lakes Literacy (CGLL) is committed to creating student-driven opportunities that engage students of all ages in hands-on learning, research, and community engagement initiatives. Our CGLL programming serves to engage youth – through their learning – as valued coastal community and Great Lakes conservation partners and leaders.
Supporting educational practices in both school and community contexts, the CGLL approaches youth engagement in Great Lakes learning using a variety of instructional methods. These activities can include classroom lessons or summer camp programs; meaningful watershed education experiences; and applied place-based education instructional practices and stewardship opportunities.
Students Ask Scientists
The Sea Grant Center for Great Lakes Literacy hosts Students Ask Scientists (SAS) video calls to connect classrooms across the Great Lakes region with scientists from a range of agencies and academic institutions. During these virtual encounters, students learn about current research projects and scientific processes being used to monitor and protect the Great Lakes. And they, of course, get to ask scientists all their burning questions about the Great Lakes and what a career in science looks like.
Learn more about these video calls
Great Lakes BioBlitz
Celebrate Earth Day with the Center for Great Lakes Literacy’s 5th Annual Great Lakes BioBlitz by finding and identifying as many wild, living things as possible in the Great Lakes-connected province and states. This free event is a great opportunity to engage youth and the public in community science, collect data to support biodiversity research and conservation, and learn more about the organisms in the Great Lakes Basin.