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Education Major Danon Briggs

Education

…personally and help you become a teacher who makes a difference. Elementary/Middle Major (Grades 1-8) This focused four-year program, including student teaching, includes project- and problem-based teaching and learning strategies for student success in the classroom. We offer an integrated curriculum that will train you to think across disciplines and…

kayaking students

Lake Superior is the Classroom

…due to more than espresso. They’ve just finished their freshman year in Superior Connections, a unique interdisciplinary course of study focused on the Lake Superior watershed. Founded in 1892, Northland College is located in northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior and the Chequamegon National Forest with its resident wildlife. Northland’s 500…

Lake Superior near Madeline Island

Lake Superior Youth Symposium

April 20, 2023April 23, 2023

The purpose of the Lake Superior Youth Symposium is to inspire and motivate teachers and students in grades 8-12 to become stewards of Lake Superior and the Great Lakes! The Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute is proud to be hosting the 15th biennial symposium. Students from across the watershed…

Group walking on the beach

Northland College to Host Lake Superior Youth Symposium

Northland College will host a four-day Lake Superior Youth Symposium, April 27-30, offering a dynamic menu of field experiences, programs, presentations, and entertainment. The Symposium is a biennial event—this is the 12th—open to teachers and students in grades 8-12 throughout the Lake Superior watershed——Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the province of…

Northland College Graphic of Lake Superior

7 Lake Superior Circumnavigations

Around the Largest Lake in the World by Kayak, Bike, and Foot

Circumnavigating Lake Superior is such a uniquely Northland College student experience. In addition to the Superior Connections program that includes a May trip around the lake, there are Northlanders who go on their own by kayak, bike, and even on foot. There’s no official ledger of Northlanders who have traveled…

Liz Downey on bike May Term

Pedaling Around Lake Superior for May Term

…years as part of Superior Connections, a theme-based curriculum focused on the natural and human histories within the Lake Superior watershed. With only one month remaining before graduation, Downey and friend, Vanessa Van Cleve, pedaled through two countries and three states as they biked their way through thirty mph winds,…