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Activity
1:
Locating Bering Land Bridge
National Preserve
Students
use maps to locate Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and the
points of interest, towns and landmarks, in and around the Preserve.
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Unit:
Footprints into
the Past and the Future
Guiding Question: What
is the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve?
Critical Content: Students
will know what the Preserve is, where it is, and some resources
preserved within it.
Grades: 4
Duration: 1/2 -
1 class period
Group size: entire
class, and individual
Setting: classroom
Materials: blackline
masters of North
America and Alaska,
Seward Peninsula map (color
or black
and white), classroom wall map of continental United States
or North America, map
of Seward Peninsula.
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Objectives:
- 1) Locate the Preserve as related to:
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- a) the Continental United States,
- b) State of Alaska,
- c) Seward Peninsula
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- 2) Locate significant land marks in the Preserve:
- a) Serpentine Hot Springs,
- b) Trail Creek Caves,
- c) the Maar Lakes,
- d) Cape Espenberg,
- e) Lost Jim Lava Flow,
- f) Nome,
- g) Shishmaref,
- h) Deering,
- i) Wales
Before You Begin: Review
What
is Bering Land Bridge National Preserve?
Procedures:
- Introduce students to the location of Bering Land Bridge National
Preserve using classroom wall map of continental United States
or North America.
- Introduce students to location of Bering Land Bridge National
Preserve using blackline masters of Alaska and the Seward Peninsula.
- Point out the location of Bering Land Bridge on Alaska blackline
map and on the Seward Peninsula laminated map from the brochure.
- Point out significant landmarks and why they are significant
in the Preserve using the Seward Peninsula laminated map from
the brochure.
- Distribute a copy of each blackline master to every student.
Students will label Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Nome,
Shishmaref, Deering, and Wales, the significant landmarks mentioned
above and major bodies of water like the Bering and Chukchi Seas.
Discussion
Questions:
- How far north is Bering Land Bridge?
- What type of climate do you think it might have? Would it be
a warm or cold place in summer? In winter? Would it be light or
dark in the summer? What about in the winter?
Extensions:
Have
students label their
home city, and find the national parks closest to their home.
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