Educators

Preparation (Under Construction)

Find grants to support your participation
Curriculum Standards Applications
Check weather conditions on the South Shelf.
Make the most of technology

Departure....

Coming Soon - 6 Years of Student Generated Lake Data! (draft presentation is available on our blog!)

Follow Up Activities

Floating Classroom instructors are available to visit your class to help students assess and understand the data they collect during your lake cruise. Consider incorporating this important component of the Floating Classroom experience into your next trip!

Share your data! Send to FloatingClassroom@cayugawatershed.org

Learn More about Cayuga at the Community Science Institute's Water Quality Database

PLEASE help us improve our programs. Complete your EXIT SURVEY!

Cruise Activities

A variety of hand-on activities may be completed during a "lab" portion of the cruise, or throughout your cruise. Select a package program, or create your own. Example Lab Worksheets are available for download, below.

Discover life in the water!

Eco-systems in a drop of water!

Measure sunlight penetration!

Create a lake profile!

New Option!

Package Programs

Cayuga Water Lab features 4 stations on the boat at a deep water site, including field/weather conditions, GPS sampling location, Secchi clarity, Water temperature and pH profile, plankton survey. See "Elementary Worksheet.PDF"
Invasive Species Survey features shallow water stops at multiple locations and aquatic plant sampling and observation.

On-Land Programs

Stream Assessments & Hikes Stream studies featuring a modified benthic macro-invertebrate indexing procedure, are available at Taughannock State Park and Myers Point locations.
Art Programs are available upon request!