Lessons On the Lake

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Parks As Classrooms
Lesson Plan

Photos from "Lessons On the Lake"

Lisa Evans and Kay Sparkman
  Lisa Evans, Education Specialist at Amistad National Recreation Area and Kay Sparkman of Forever Resorts' Lake Amistad Marina stand on the deck of the houseboat used for "Lessons On the Lake", a Parks As Classrooms program sponsored by the National Park Service and Forever Resorts, and funded by a grant from the National Park Foundation.

 

Boarding the boat

Kids boarding the houseboat

 

Education onboard the boat

Lisa teaching classroom lessons

 

Girl reading aloud

Kids enjoying the lessons

 


Girl with artifact replicas

And the cool hands-on stuff

 

Classroom exeriment

Some classroom experiments

 
Lessons up top

Lessons on the top deck

 

Kids enjoying the scenery

The scenery is great too

 

Indian Springs on the Devil's River

A natural spring

 

Kids spotted some pictographs

Look! Some rock art paintings!

 

Curly-tail Panther pictograph site.

There they are! How beautiful!

 

We ate lunch on land

We ate our lunch on land

 

Going back home

Homeward bound

 

Thanks to Forever Resorts for providing us with a houseboat and pilot. We had a great time and we learned a lot about Amistad National Recreation Area, the plants and animals, geology, and the lifeways of Native American people who inhabited this area over 9,000 years ago.

 

 

Jeff Walker, our Houseboat-pilot

Jeff Walker, our Houseboat-pilot

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