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Lesson Plans & Teacher Guides
 
The following links will take you to lesson plans that can be used in your classroom before and after your visit to Grand Canyon. Each set of lesson plans pertains to one of our 6 programs offered. You will find discriptions of fun and educational activities that will pique your students interest before they arrive, and help them review what they learned after they go home.

The following links are .pdf files. You will need an Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.

 

General Activities Lesson Plans

Geology Lesson Plans

Geologic Timeline Cards

Natural History Lesson Plans

Human History Lesson Plans

Glossary and Resource List
Teacher resources
Grand Canyon resources for teachers
Links to "For Teachers" page
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GRAND CANYON ROCKS  

Did You Know?
The more recent Kaibab limestone caprock, on the rims of the Grand Canyon, formed 270 million years ago. In contrast, the oldest rocks within the Inner Gorge at the bottom of Grand Canyon date to 1.84 billion years ago. Geologists currently set the age of Earth at 4.5 billion years.

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Last Updated: November 18, 2008 at 19:35 EST