Teaching With Historic Places Lesson Plans: use properties listed in the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. A variety of products and activities that help teachers bring historic places into the classroom are available.
On Shaky Ground explains what happened during the 7.1-magnitude Hector Mine earthquake, which occured on October 16, 1999.
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Did You Know?
With 700 species of vascular plants, Joshua Tree is renowned for its plant diversity. No wonder that when the area was first proposed for preservation in the early 1930s, the name suggested was Desert Plants National Park.
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