Paddle to The Sea Resources

Film
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Complete Film

Maps
Blank Maps from GoAlongs
Emily T’s Maps
Blank Great Lakes Map

Google Lit Trip for Paddle-to-the-Sea – Summary
Google Lit Trip for Paddle-to-the-Sea – Google Earth file

Great Lakes Song

Five Great Lakes

Chapter Resources

1. How Paddle Came to Be
Carve a boat from soap
Make a popsicle stick canoe
Make a miniature birchbark canoe
Video: What's So Great About the Great Lakes
Video:  Birchbark Canoe
Video: Incredible by Any Measure

2. Long River Reaching to the Sea
Make a model of the Great Lakes
Animation – How the Great Lakes Flow
Video: WORLD GEOGRAPHY 101: The Great Lakes

3. Paddle Starts on His Journey
Animal Tracks
Video: Adventure Out - Animal Tracks

4. Brook and Beaver Pond
Nature Study – Outdoor Hour Challenge – Beavers and Muskrats
Diagrams of Beaver Dams
Video – How Beavers Build a Lodge
Video – About Beavers
Video- Beaver Documentary | National Geographic | Beavers, Dam Beaver, Animal & Wildlife

5. Breakup of the River
Video – Ice River Breakup
Video – Another River Breakup

6. Paddle Meets a Sawmill
Video – How a Lock Works
Video – River Log Drive
Video – The Last Log Drive
Video – From Stump to Ship – 30min 1930 logging film

7. Paddle Meets a Friend
Video – Steam Powered 1800s Circular Sawmill 
Video – Modern Sawmill

8. The Largest Lake in the World

Lake Superior Fish - The Perennial Plate Episode 16

Video: Lake Superior Facts and History - Great Lakes
Video: Discovering - Keweenaw Geology
Video: Epic Lake Superior Waves

9. Paddle Crosses Two Borders
History of Thunder Bay
Interesting Facts about Modern Thunder Bay
Article – The Decline of Grain Elevators in Thunder Bay
Port of Thunder Bay Grain Facilities
Video – How a Grain Elevator Works

10. Life in a Northern Marsh
Great Lakes Wetlands Field Guide
Video: EYEWITNESS | Pond & River | S2E6

Video: Great Lakes Cleanup | National Geographic

Video: Keeping the Great Lakes Great

11. Paddle Finds One End of Lake Superior
Video – Loading Iron Ore onto a Ship
Video- Iron Mining | How To Make Everything: Tools (3/6)
Video- HowStuffWorks - Ore to Steel
Video- How Things Work : How Is Iron Mined?

12. A Fish Story
Photos – The Apostle Islands Sea Caves
Video – Lake Superior Fishing
Video – Processing a Fish
Video – Casting a Net

13. Adrift Again
Video – Generating Electricity
Video – How Hydroelectricity Works

14. The Shipwreck
Lake Superior Lighthouse Map
Art Activity – Drawing a Lighthouse
Lake Superior Shipwreck Map
Coast Guard Breeches Bouy Drill
Shipwreck Dive
Video:  The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

15. Dry Dock
Colouring Book – US Coast Guard
Video – Coast Guard ice cutter through frozen Great Lakes

16. By Dog Sled to the Soo
Video – Dog Sledding
Video: Dog Sledding | A Pure Michigan Winter
Video – Ship through the Soo Locks

17. Non-Stop Down Lake Michigan
Video:Lake Michigan in 90 Seconds
Diagram- Great Lakes Freighter 

Video: Peter - Michigan Copper Miner

18. Paddle Returns to the North

19. Forest Fire
Video: What Causes Forest Fires
Interactive – Only YOU Can Prevent Forest Fires!
Article- Benefits of Fire
Video- Prescribed Burns
Video: The Science of Wildfires

20. Through Lake Huron
Video: Everything You Need to Know About Ice Fishing
Video: Potawatomi Indians
Video: Turnip Rock – a Rocky Remote Islet on Lake Huron, USA HD 2014 HD
Video: The Sunrise Side | Lake Huron's Lower Peninsula Shoreline

21. Paddle Reaches Lake Erie
Video – Lake Erie in Winter
Video: Great Lakes Sailing - Welland Canal HD time-lapse
Video: How Canals work
Website- Shipping
Video: Great Lakes: Their Link With Ocean Shipping
Video: Soo Locks
Video: Battle of Lake Erie - 9/10/1813

22. Paddle Takes a Great Fall
Video – Niagara Falls
Website- Niagara Falls
Video:  Megastunts: Nik Wallenda Takes the First Step in His Tightrope Walk Over Niagara Falls
Video:  Niagara Falls Daredevils - Walking the Wire

23. Lake Ontario At Last
The Nature of God: Great Lakes Discoveries Children's Curriculum by Peter Schriemer

24. Along the Great River
Video: The Story of the St. Lawrence Seaway
Video:  Quebec Vacation Travel Guide | Expedia
Video: The St. Lawrence Estuary - Beyond the surface

25. Rivers in the Sea
Video: Curious Kids: Lakes, Rivers & Estuaries
Video:  Estuaries
Video: What is an estuary?

26. Paddle Finds a New Friend

27. On a Wharf
Where a few other Paddles ended up!
A ‘found’ Paddle

Other Resources

Great Lakes Activities for kids by Enjoy Teaching with Brenda KovichNarration Guide or try this link
About the Great Lakes
Vocabulary and Comprehension Questions
ERIC Teacher’s Guide
Supplemental Activities
Gulf of Maine Research Authority Paddle Activities
Unit Study style chapter activities
Homeschool Helper Online Unit Study
Paddle-to-the-Sea notebooking pages

Living Life Cycles Worksheets and Activity