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Acadia National Park
Lesson Plans and Teachers Guides
 

Educator's Guide Series
A series of guides was developed to help educators prepare their students for a visit to the park. These guides accompany the following curriculum-based programs:

  • Animals of Acadia
  • Carriage Road Explorers
  • Carroll Homestead
  • Island Life
  • Shoreline Discovery
  • Where in the World is Tuzigoot?

Each guide contains background information to assist leaders in better understanding Acadia's resources as well as the concepts and goals of each age-specific program. Pre- and post-visit activities for the classroom, plus a teacher/student bibliography, are included.

Both the Shoreline Discovery and Where in the World is Tuzigoot? guides can be purchased through Eastern National. Online versions of the remaining guides are available in pdf format:

 

Although there is no educator's guide for the Fire and Ice program, background information about the geology of the park is available in the Fire and Ice: Acadia's Geologic Story presentation (pdf - 2.8mb).

A group of students sits in front of the 19th-century Carroll Homestead.
Bring your students to the park
Curriculum-based programs are offered for 3rd through 8th grades.
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A man boards the Island Explorer bus.  

Did You Know?
Since 1999, propane-powered Island Explorer buses have carried more than two million passengers in Acadia National Park, eliminating more than 685,000 automobile trips and preventing 6,444 tons of greenhouse gases. The fare-free buses are supported by your entrance fees.
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Last Updated: November 13, 2008 at 10:16 EST