Imagine trying to make a living on the Great Lakes. Maybe you are a voyageur, a tiny copepod, or a Great Lakes salmon. Survival isn’t always easy, especially when there is so much competition. Relive the past and find out some secrets for staying alive today! Try your hand at these six survival skills:

• Don’t Drink the Water: Offer a toast to the water cycle! Then, learn how you could survive if you were lost without a drop to drink.

• Star Light, Star Bright: Find out how to determine directions, figure your latitude, and tell time with the amazing North Star.

• Gone Fishin’: Find out how much fishing has changed and how much it has stayed the same. Go ahead; try your luck fishing with a soda can!

• Rival for Survival: Discover the fish-eat-fish world out in the lakes while you play a board game.

• Unfair Advantage!: Explore the beach for zebra mussel shells and find out how they live, grow, and take over a habitat.

• Waterlogs: Enjoy a great adventure story and find out why it is important to record your own thoughts, feelings, and observations.

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