How students from a one-room schoolhouse turned fishing lures into reel-world learning

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“How can we design and create fishing lures that will attract the fish we’re fishing for and sell well in our area?”

It’s the kind of question you might expect to hear at a tackle shop before the spring opener or batted around between experienced anglers after a long day on the river or lake.

Instead, the question came from a handful of third and fourth grade students inside one of Michigan’s…