Boiled down to its purest essence, the National Park Service’s Parks as Classrooms program is all about helping children understand their world. It is a concerted nationwide initiative to utilize the wonderful resources of the parks for teaching and learning purposes- in the process, education becomes active, experiential and fun.

Curriculum-based materials were developed in 1996 and are tied to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).

Biodiversity—2nd Grade Educator's Guide (400k pdf file) 

Cultural History—4th Grade Educator's Guide (500k pdf file)

Geology—6th Grade Educator's Guide (700K pdf file) 

Spanish Educator's Guide—all three guides in spanish (1MB pdf file)

These guidebooks are in PDF format and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader to properly view and print them.