Onondaga Lake Project is under way!

In science class, we have started the research phase of our investigation into such an important local topic. Thank you parents for taking the time last week to share your thoughts about the lake and working successfully in a group.















This is a pretty intense assignment - here are the components:

1. Attend the Kick Off Field Trip 
2. Investigate species that lived in the Onondaga Lake Watershed in the 1600's
3. Create a Food Web representing the ecosystem at that time
4. Research a Timeline of Events that impacted the Lake
5. Complete Science Vocab rewritten in students' own words
6. Answer set of Science Questions relating the NYS curriculum to Onondaga Lake
7. Read the Onondaga Nation's Vision for a Cleaner Onondaga Lake
8. Research questions related to Honeywell's Lake Clean Up
9. Examine a specific topic, event or entity that influenced the Lake and/or the Watershed
10. Create a website to present the students' research
11. Email a professional or professor about a specific research question.
12. Social Studies DBQ: How did the industrialization and rapid-city growth of Syracuse lead to the destruction of Onondaga Lake and its surrounding areas?
13. ELA Persuasive Essay - Compare current clean up efforts with the Vision publication. Students will chose a stance and support their views with evidence.


Onondaga Lake Project Website