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Two University of Maine undergraduates are designing place-based education materials and Kâ12 curricula about the Grand Kankakee Marsh in Northern Indiana as part of a National Geographic Society grant.
Mo Weitman and Bell Gellis Morais are working with Katherine Glover, research associate at the Climate Change Institute (CCI) and recipient of a National Geographic Society Early Career Grant, to develop materials that will educate students and teachers about the past and present of an area once referred to as the Everglades of the North.
Weitman and Moraisâs curriculum design forms part of the outreach component of Gloverâs project, âBiogeography of the Grand Kankakee Marsh, Northern Indiana, U.S. over the past 5,000 years,â which seeks to reconstruct the history of the region and contribute to restoration efforts. The Grand Kankanee Marsh once spanned over 1,000 square miles and was famous for its rich biodiversity before it was irreversibly disturbed