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Students view a video entitle Great Lodges of the National Parks. They design, in groups of three, their own park based on research of a specific area. Each member of the group possess a different task in order to accomplish the project.
In this national parks worksheet, students watch a video on America's Western National Parks and answer short answer questions about it. Students answer 19 questions.
Students record and analyze acceleration data collected on amusement park rides. They concentrate on the effects of acceleration on their bodies w hile collecting data.
Students discover the interaction of American Literature, politics and the environmental movement. They explore the changing concept and philosophy of wilderness, and explain the development of The National Park System. They read sections of Thoreau, Muir, Abbey and Emerson with a set of questions for the students to develop their own essays.
Learners discuss what they know about Rosa Parks and the incident on one of the buses in Montgomery, Alabama. In groups, they discuss and identify where they recieve most of their information. They examine the importance of having a complete and accurate account of events and how that can lead to misconceptions if they do not have all of the facts.
Students get up close and personal with principles of motion. In this physics lesson, students collect and analyze acceleration data on amusement park rides. Students use CBLs to collect data in this lesson.
Students describe Rosa Parks' contributions and how they affect us today, and identify important events occurring at this time in history.
Young scholars work in pairs and research a national park. After gathering plenty of info, they make a brochure containing many types of info about the park they chose.
Third graders engage in a lesson that is about the historical contributions of Rosa Parks. They conduct research using a variety of resources and work together to create a chart to organize the information. It is then used to help have a classroom discussion.
Learners analyze a 1936 national park map of Yosemite to distinguish the natural features from the cultural features.