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Joshua Tree National Park
Ranger Guided
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| Pre-school & Kindergarten |
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Tracks and More explores how animals move, what sort of shelters they live in, and what their tracks look like. (kindergarten) |
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Who Lives in a National Park? introduces students in pre-school and kindergarten to the differences between pets and wild animals and what desert animals are. |
| First & Second Grades |
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Earth’s Bare Bones: Desert Landforms explores the different types of landforms found in deserts and helps students understand how rocks are formed and the makeup of minerals in rocks. |
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Habitats introduces students to the concept of what animals need to survive. |
| Third & Fourth Grades |
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The Joshua Tree Hotel engages students in exploring the world of the Joshua tree and its symbiotic relationship with many desert animals. |
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Geologic Teenagers: The Rocks of Joshua Tree National Park helps students discover how the rocks of Joshua Tree were formed and eroded. (fourth grade) |
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Barker Dam Survival in an Arid Land engages students in understanding how American Indians and early settlers survived in and adapted to the desert. (third grade) |
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Cottonwood Desert Adaptations engages students in exploring how plants and animals have adapted to survive in the desert. (fourth grade) (given at Cottonwood Spring) Note: Program cancelled for 2011/12 school year because of safety concerns due to the September flooding event.
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Keys to the Past explores how successful homesteaders survived in the desert. |
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| Fifth & Sixth Grades |
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Rocks and Faults engages students in how the ever-dynamic geology of Earth formed and continues to shape the landscape. (sixth grade) |
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Desert Adaptations engages students in exploring how plants and animals have adapted to survive in the desert. |
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Keys to the Past explores how successful homesteaders survived in the desert. |
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Jr Ranger Unit offers students a chance to explore their desert in depth and earn a Junior Ranger badge. |
| Middle & Jr High Students |
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Rocks and Faults engages students in discovering how the ever-dynamic geology of Earth formed and continues to shape the landscape. |
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Tortoise, Tortoise launches students into a study of the desert tortoise through scientific study practices using tortoise replicas. (sixth & seventh grades) |
| Highschool Students |
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Desert Connections engages students in how the rocks, plants, animals and resource impacts are connected in our desert lands. |
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Research
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Discovering the Ancients Science in Action has student participating in a science research project for the park that deals with desert plants. In class presentation is required to participate. |
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JobShadowing allows a student to accompany a national park ranger in order to experience what he or she does on a daily basis. |
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| |  | | Did You Know?
Humans have occupied the area encompassed by Joshua Tree National Park for at least 5,000 years. The first group known to inhabit the area was the Pinto Culture, followed by the Serrano, the Chemehuevi, and the Cahuilla.
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Last Updated: February 03, 2012 at 22:18 MST |
