Pre-Visit Activity:
The National Park Service

Wings Over the Woodlands and Wetlands

 

Table of Contents

About This Program

  • To the Teacher
  • Program Description
  • Sample Itinerary
  • Program Theme and Objectives
  • Teacher Responsibilities
  • Background Information

    Pre-visit Activities

  • Built to Do the Job Right
  • The National Park Service
  • Six Birds of Roosevelt Island
  • Some Stay, Some Move Away
  • Trip Readiness

    Post-visit Activities

  • Thanks for the Memories
  • Hummingbird Hunger

     

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    Objectives

    Students will:

    1) Learn to recognize the logo of the National Park Service.

    2) Identify the meanings of each of the logo components.

    Materials

    Background information about the National Park Service

    National Park Service logo hand-out and color guide

    Crayons

    Field trip banner (print the curriculum's title on a banner by computer and attach the banner to two large dowels)

    Procedures

    1) Give the students a brief overview of the National Park Service system. Include answers to such questions as, What is the National Park Service? When was it established? Where is it? Who established it? Why was it established?

    2) Using information available from the National Park Service, explain the meaning of its logo. Distribute to each student a logo hand-out and crayons. As a group, determine with the students the colors which should be used in the logo's key. Direct students to color the logo using the completed key.

    3) Discuss with the children the mission of the Parks as Classrooms program. Introduce Roosevelt Island as the park which will become their classroom as they focus on the "Wings Over the Woodlands and Wetlands." Tell the students that they will be studying six birds in particular. This is an appropriate time to display a field trip banner; this can be made on a computer and attached in scroll fashion to two large dowels.