Posted on 09/16/2013 11:21:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A new website launched by the National Park Service gives Alaska teachers a new tool to engage students in classroom and place-based learning.
The website
nps.gov/teachers is a one-stop shop for curriculum-based lesson plans, traveling trunks, maps, activities, distance learning and other resources.
Alaska’s national park-based curriculum and other teacher resources are substantial and varied, and include:
• Distance Learning: Glacier Bay National Park’s “Visiting Glacier Bay” provides an opportunity for a virtual visit to this Southeast Alaska gem.
• Curriculum: Denali National Park’s “Denali Rocks!” focuses on geology and provides eight lessons matched to Alaska State Standards for 6th to 8th grade science. Denali also offers a short video detailing additional resource for teachers. Aleutian World War II National Historic Site features “Attu: The North American Battleground of World War II.”
• Field Trips: Sitka National Historical Park offers a great field trip program titled “Traditional Cooking with a Bentwood Box.” The national teachers site is searchable by location, keyword, and more than 125 subjects, from archeology, to biology, to constitutional law. In addition to park-created content, the site also features educational materials created by NPS national programs like the National Register of Historic Places and its award-winning Teaching with Historic Places series of 147 lesson plans.
What about the other 7 ?
ACORN is still working on their site.
ping for later! thanks
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.