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Table of Contents
Introduction
Welcome to the Whitman Mission National
Historic Site field trip guide. This guide has been compiled to aid
you in planning and conducting your field trip to Whitman Mission.
Within the guide, you will find
ideas on how to plan your trip, how to integrate Whitman Mission into
your curriculum, and how to make sure your field trip is successful.
Included are a few pre-site, on-site, and post-site activities, intended
to help you to make the field trip more meaningful to students.
This guide is not intended
as a source of information on the Whitmans, the Oregon Trail,
or the Cayuse. Nor is it a primary resource for lesson plans.
For information on these topics, please refer to the Whitman
Mission Teacher's guide and information available on our web
pages.
The National Park Service's Organic
Act in 1916 gave us the responsibility to "… conserve the
scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein
and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such
means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."
Educational endeavors help us to protect these parks for the future.
Our goals for this guide are:
- To give educators the tools
to plan a successful field trip to Whitman Mission.
- To provide educators with activities
to enhance student learning at Whitman Mission.
- To help educators to integrate
Whitman Mission into their curriculums.
- To give educators resources for
planning curriculum related to Whitman Mission themes.
We hope you find the guide useful.
It will be revised periodically as the need arises, so please help us
out by letting us know which parts were helpful to you and which parts
weren't. As always, if you have any questions, the rangers at Whitman
Mission are here to help you. Please call us at (509) 522-6360.
We look forward to seeing you on
your next field trip to Whitman Mission National Historic Site.
Sincerely,
The Whitman Mission National Historic
Site Rangers
Introduction
Planning
Your Field Trip
Pre-visit
Activities | On-site
Activities | Post-visit
Activities
Additional
Resources
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