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Glorious Great Lakes

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Michele Howard reads the book The Great Lakes. The episode’s activity is led by Tara Gang, an elementary art teacher at Traverse City Area Public Schools, and focuses on researching some interesting facts about a favorite lake and then designing and building a map to represent the body of water.

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