National Parks
Opening Video
Video - President Teddy Roosevelt's camping trip in Yosemite with John Muir after which he created the National Parks
Read - The Camping Trip that Changed America by Barb Rosenstock
Read - You are Home by Evan Turk
Arches National Park - Utah
Badlands -South Dakota- more reading but good geology information
Bandelier - New Mexico - easy, clear
Bighorn Canyon - more reading, clear information
Crater Lake - Oregon - easy, good clear information
Canyonlands - Utah - easy, good clear information
Craters of the Moon - Idaho - good information, a little harder to decipher
Dinosaur National Monument - Colorado and Utah - good clear information, more reading*
Shenandoah-Virginia - EXAMPLE - good information - fairly clear
Yellowstone -Idaho, Montana, Wyoming - this has two parts. One is generally about the park, but there is also a
Yellowstone - geysers - how and why they happen (because this feature is so unique and happening now)- definitely more challenging
Yosemite- California - can be short and sweet, pair could go deeper
Hawaii Volcanoes -Hawaii - easiest shortest
Zion National Park - Utah - more challenging - use only if need
ONLY looking for the processes of land formation they have learned about - glaciation, deposition, volcanoes, plate movement/uplift, weathering.
Find the big processes that formed the area and put it into notes in your own words, as a 4th grader understands them- in the order that it happened from the oldest times to present day, if the website takes them up to present day. Like a timeline of sorts. Using Google Docs to take notes. Then Google Slideshow to create a presentation on your assigned National Park.
Students examine the geologic processes that formed the land of a National Park concentrating on the processes they have learned about (tectonic plate movement/uplift, erosion, deposition, glaciation, weathering, volcanic eruption). They show the processes in progression. Then they take those processes and put them into a Google Slideshow Presentation explaining how the land was formed.
Video - President Teddy Roosevelt's camping trip in Yosemite with John Muir after which he created the National Parks
Read - The Camping Trip that Changed America by Barb Rosenstock
Read - You are Home by Evan Turk
Arches National Park - Utah
Badlands -South Dakota- more reading but good geology information
Bandelier - New Mexico - easy, clear
Bighorn Canyon - more reading, clear information
Crater Lake - Oregon - easy, good clear information
Canyonlands - Utah - easy, good clear information
Craters of the Moon - Idaho - good information, a little harder to decipher
Dinosaur National Monument - Colorado and Utah - good clear information, more reading*
Shenandoah-Virginia - EXAMPLE - good information - fairly clear
Yellowstone -Idaho, Montana, Wyoming - this has two parts. One is generally about the park, but there is also a
Yellowstone - geysers - how and why they happen (because this feature is so unique and happening now)- definitely more challenging
Yosemite- California - can be short and sweet, pair could go deeper
Hawaii Volcanoes -Hawaii - easiest shortest
Zion National Park - Utah - more challenging - use only if need
ONLY looking for the processes of land formation they have learned about - glaciation, deposition, volcanoes, plate movement/uplift, weathering.
Find the big processes that formed the area and put it into notes in your own words, as a 4th grader understands them- in the order that it happened from the oldest times to present day, if the website takes them up to present day. Like a timeline of sorts. Using Google Docs to take notes. Then Google Slideshow to create a presentation on your assigned National Park.
Students examine the geologic processes that formed the land of a National Park concentrating on the processes they have learned about (tectonic plate movement/uplift, erosion, deposition, glaciation, weathering, volcanic eruption). They show the processes in progression. Then they take those processes and put them into a Google Slideshow Presentation explaining how the land was formed.