The Great Lakes
featuring Lake Erie in past and present

Lincoln School
Grade 3
Ms. Deese

 Lakewood City Schools
Lakewood Public Library 
  Do you know the "H.O.M.E.S." trick?  It's an easy way to remember the names of all five of the Great Lakes:
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.
But the names of the Great Lakes are hardly the most interesting thing about them.
Below you'll find information about the history, geography and ecology of our "Inland Seas."

Introduction to the Great Lakes - An excellent place to start your investigation

Gifts 0f the Glaciers - A history of the Great Lakes from their formation to the present

What's in a Name? - How each of the Great Lakes got its name

Fish Profiles - Fish in the Great Lakes

Water Pollution in the Great Lakes

Great Lakes Ports and Shipping

Our Great Lakes - For Kids, from Environment Canada

Great Lakes Information Network

The Great Lakes Environmental Atlas and Resource Book

Lighthouses of the Great Lakes

Water Temperature Map - current average water temperatures throughout the Great Lakes

Great Lakes Bathymetry - What's bathymetry? It's a depth map.

Lake Erie Coastal Ohio

Lake Erie - as brought to you by GLIN, the Great Lakes Information Network. LOTS of information!

The Steamer William G. Mather  Museum - Take a virtual tour of Cleveland's own Great Lakes steamship.

Research Databases (Outside the Library OPLIN databases require an Ohio public library card for access). Searches magazines, newspapers, almanacs, radio and TV broadcasts, even photographs!

Search the Lakewood Public Library Collection Catalog for books and audiovisual materials about the Great Lakes.