Essential Materials:

• 2020 GREEN Teacher Notebook

• GREEN Testing Guide

• Test Directions modified for Middle School

• Data Collection Sheet

• Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for all chemicals 

Extension Lesson Support:

• Flint River GREEN Bridges:
  • 12-Week GREEN Project-Based Curriculum
  • Student Readers
  • Assessments
  • Electronic Resource Bank

• Digital & Remote Learning Resources:
  • Interactive Slide Decks
  • Home-Based Activities
  • Remote Learning Progression

• History of the Flint River Interactive Slide Decks
  • Student Slide Deck
  • Please request Teacher Slide Deck from FRWC for answer keys

• Interactive Maps/GIS
  • MapFlint Interactive Flint River Watershed Mapping/GIS Tutorial and Worksheet
  • eWatershed Mapper Tutorial and Worksheet
  • Model My Watershed Middle and High School Curricula 
    • Supporting Slide Deck for Lesson 2: Modeling Improvements for My Schoolyard

• Additional Stream Monitoring Activities (see program manager for training information)
  • Benthic Monitoring
  • Stream Habitat Assessment

Individual Test Instructions from Flint River GREEN GREEN Testing Guide:

• Testing at the Stream Overview
• Biochemical Oxygen Demand
• Dissolved Oxygen
• Fecal Coliform
• How to Count Coliform Colonies – Coliscan Easygel Method
• Nitrates
• pH
• Phosphate
• Total Solids
• Turbidity
• Temperature

LaMotte-Issued Test Kit Instructions:

• Dissolved Oxygen and Biological Oxygen Demand (English/Spanish/French)
• pH: with rectangular comparator
• pH: with Octaslide bar (English/Spanish/French)
• Turbidity (English/Spanish/French)
• Nitrate: with rectangular comparator
• Nitrate: with Octaslide bar
• Phosphate: with Axial Reader
• Phosphate: with color bar

Additional Teacher/Mentor Resources:

• • Flint River GREEN Full Vocabulary List
  • Teacher/Mentor Presentations for Classrooms
  • Steps for teachers to add WQI data to website

    Teachers, please use the general “teacher” login to access the submitting data submission form. You will also need your unique identifier provided to you by the program manager in order to submit your data.

2021 Summit Information:

• • Program 
  • Student Posters

Stream Health Reports: 

• Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) 

2008 and 2013 BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE FLINT RIVER AND SELECTED TRIBUTARIES

• Flint River Watershed Coalition

2021 Flint River GREEN Annual Report