What's So Great About Great Bay?
Audiences: High School and Adults
NH Frameworks: Sections: LS1-1, LS2-3
Program Summary
The hidden jewel of the New Hampshire seacoast is featured in this colorful, informative and entertaining Power Point presentation about the Great Bay estuary. When fresh and salt water mix in an estuary, many unique and invaluable habitats are created, providing a home to many organisms and plants. This presentation explores those habitats and the fish, birds and mammals which find food and shelter in the estuary
The history of the area is also examined, beginning about 12,000 years ago with a mile-high glacier that created a vast sunken river valley and continuing through the rapid industrial development of the Piscataqua Basin - the sawmills, shipyards and the growth of commercial fishing – featured in vintage photos and graphics.
The unique nature of Great Bay to the region's landscape and the vulnerability of the Great Bay ecosystem are illustrated through several artifacts and materials left by the estuary's organisms. Participants will discover how an attempt to build "the largest oil refinery in the world" – a threat to the entire New Hampshire Seacoast - was thwarted.
Program Outline
- Part 1 (describe opening part of the presentation
- Activity
- Part 2
- Activity
Resources
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