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A Desert Park | Visiting | Activities | Nature | Culture | Education |
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| Preschool and Kindergarten |
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| Natural History | Who Lives in the park? introduces students in pre-school and kindergarten to the differences between pets and wild animals and what desert animals are. (class) | |||||||||||
| First & Second Grades | ||||||||||||
| Natural History | Earth’s Bare Bones: Desert Landforms explores the different types of landforms found in deserts and helps students understand how rocks are formed. (park) | |||||||||||
| Habitats introduces students to the concept of what animals need to survive. (class and park) | ||||||||||||
| Furry Flyers Desert Bats helps students explore the important roles bats play in our desert ecosystem. (second graders only) (class) | ||||||||||||
| Tooth and Claw engages students in how animals survive in their environment. (class) | ||||||||||||
| Cultural History | What Do Park Rangers Do? helps students understand the importance of national parks and the variety of jobs performed by park rangers. (class) | |||||||||||
| Third and Fourth Grades | ||||||||||||
| Natural History | The Joshua Tree Hotel engages students in exploring the world of the Joshua tree and its symbiotic relationship with many desert animals. (class and park) | |||||||||||
| Geologic Teenagers: The Rocks of Joshua Tree National Park helps students discover how the rocks of Joshua Tree were formed and eroded. (fourth grade) (class and park) | ||||||||||||
| Desert Adaptations engages students in exploring how plants and animals have adapted to survive in the desert. (fourth grade) (class and park) | ||||||||||||
| Cottonwood Desert Adaptations engages students in exploring how plants and animals have adapted to survive in the desert. (fourth grade) (given at Cottonwood Spring) | ||||||||||||
| Cultural History | They Called The Desert Home engages students in exploring the human history of the park. (class) | |||||||||||
| Living in Harmony helps students explore how the California Desert Indians lived and survived in the local area. (class) | ||||||||||||
| Ryan Ranch: People, Land and Water helps students look for evidence left behind by human inhabitants of the park. (park) | ||||||||||||
| What Do Park Rangers Do? An in-class program about the many jobs available in parks. | ||||||||||||
| Barker Dam: Surviving in an Arid Land provides students with an understanding of how American Indians and early settlers survived by adapting to the desert. (third grade)(park) | ||||||||||||
| Barker Dam: People and the Land engages students in looking at the impacts left behind by American Indians, cattlemen, and visitors today. (fourth grade)(park) | ||||||||||||
| Jr Ranger Unit | A comprehensive unit leading to the award of a junior ranger badge. Presented in-class. | |||||||||||
| Fifth and Sixth Grades | ||||||||||||
| Natural History | Geologic Teenagers: The Rocks of Joshua Tree National Park helps students discover how the rocks of Joshua Tree were formed and eroded. (class and park) | |||||||||||
| Desert Adaptations engages students in exploring how plants and animals have adapted to survive in the desert. (class and park) | ||||||||||||
| Cultural History | Keys to the Past explores how successful homesteaders survived in the desert. (in-park) | |||||||||||
| Layers Upon Layers: Exploring Archaeology engages students in grades five and six in the science of archaeology by mapping artifacts and making inferences based on what is found. (class) | ||||||||||||
| Jr Ranger Unit | Offers students a chance to explore their desert in depth and earn a junior ranger badge. (class and park) | |||||||||||
| Middle & Jr High Students | ||||||||||||
| Natural History | Tortoise, Tortoise launches students into a study of the desert tortoise through scientific study practices using tortoise replicas. (class and park) | |||||||||||
| Out’a Sight initiates students in the study of poor air quality and how it affects visibility in Joshua Tree National Park. (class) | ||||||||||||
| Cultural History | Epitaphs on Rock helps students explore American history in the 1920s and 30s through writings on rocks. (class and park) | |||||||||||
| National Park Service Careers helps students explore the importance of national parks and the types of jobs needed to manage these special places. (class) | ||||||||||||
| Current Events | Finding a Solution allows students to explore issues and problems in Joshua Tree National Park and formulate a possible solution. (eighth grade) (class) | |||||||||||
| Highschool Students | ||||||||||||
| Natural History | Desert Connections engages students in how the rocks, plants, animals and resource impacts are connected in our desert lands. (class and park) | |||||||||||
| A new program on taxonomy helps high school students explore how and why scientists put animals and plants into groups. (class) | ||||||||||||
| Cultural History | Epitaphs on Rock Discover clues to the 1920s and ’30s in the rock etchings of an eccentric miner. (class and park) | |||||||||||
| National Park Service Careers helps students explore the importance of national parks and the types of jobs needed to manage these special places. (class) | ||||||||||||
| Current Events | Finding a Solution allows students to explore issues and problems in Joshua Tree National Park and formulate a possible solution. (class) | |||||||||||
| Research Opportunities | Contact us for more information. Email: jotr_education@nps.gov Voice: 760-365-2371 Fax: 760-365-3155 Mail: Education Office Joshua Tree National Park 9800 Black Rock Canyon Road Yucca Valley, CA 92284 |
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