Ranger Guided

Pre-school & Kindergarten
Natural History		Tracks and More explores how animals move, what sort of shelters they live in, and what their tracks look like. (kindergarten)
		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
Natural History		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.
		Habitats introduces students to the concept of what animals need to survive.

 

Third & Fourth Grades
Natural History		The Joshua Tree Hotel engages students in exploring the world of the Joshua tree and its symbiotic relationship with many desert animals.
		Geo Kids: The Rocks of Joshua Tree National Park helps students discover how the rocks of Joshua Tree were formed and eroded. (fourth grade)
		Cottonwood Desert Adaptations engages students in exploring how plants and animals have adapted to survive in the desert. (fourth grade) (given at Cottonwood Spring)
Cultural History		Keys to the Past explores how successful homesteaders survived in the desert. (Limited to one class per program.)
		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)

 

Fifth & Sixth Grades
Natural History		Rocks and Faults engages students in how the ever-dynamic geology of Earth formed and continues to shape the landscape. (sixth grade)
		Cottonwood Desert Adaptations engages students in exploring how plants and animals have adapted to survive in the desert.
		Desert Water: A Secret from the Sun
Cultural History		Keys to the Past explores how successful homesteaders survived in the desert. (Limited to one class per program.)

 

Middle & Jr High Students
Natural History	Rocks and Faults engages students in discovering how the ever-dynamic geology of Earth formed and continues to shape the landscape.
	Tortoise, Tortoise launches students into a study of the desert tortoise through scientific study practices using tortoise replicas. (sixth & seventh grades)
	Desert Connections engages students in how the rocks, plants, animals and resource impacts are connected in our desert lands.

 

Highschool Students
Natural History		Desert Connections engages students in how the rocks, plants, animals and resource impacts are connected in our desert lands.
Research Opportunities		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.
		Job Shadowing allows a student to accompany a national park ranger in order to experience what he or she does on a daily basis.