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Curriculum Materials

curriculum materials includes:
Fire Curriculum

Grades K-3
Making Connections: Grades K-3 (complete, 889k pdf)

Individual Curricula:

Park Puzzle (248k)
Mammoth Cave Mobile (279k)
Nature/Unnature Walk (48k)
Shapes of the Season (63k)
Tasty Trees (53k)
Bats Need a Cave (49k)
A Place Protected (57k)
Clay Caves (55k)
Webbing the Wonders (68k)
Card Conclusion 146k)

Grades 4-5
Making Connections: Grades 4-5 (complete, 1.2 mb pdf)

Individual Curricula:

Plotting Protected Places (99k)
Exploring Emblems (237k)
Acorn Mix-up (62k)
The Case of the Mysterious Rocks (61k)
Current Song (54k)
Clear as Mud (66k)
Kentucky Capsules (60k)
In Remembrance (183k)
Findings From the Field 60k)
Cover All! (PARKO) (181k)

Grades 6-8
Making Connections: Grades 6-8 (complete, 9.3 mb pdf)

Individual Curricula:

Protect and Provide (247k)
Soda Sink (203k)
Secret Sink (259k)
Mammoth Math (887k)
Back to the Past (179k)
It's All Greek (And Latin) to Me! (1.15Mb)
That's My Tree! (181k)
Do or Die (192k)
Making Headlines (703k)
Sum(It)-Up (269k)

Paleontology Curriculum (Grades 1-12)
Paleontology: Grades 1-12 (complete, 1.4 mb pdf)
Paleonotology companion workbook (837K pdf)

Individual Curricula:

Introduction and Background (21k)

Part One: Our Geologic Past
Kitchen Geology (47k)
Weathering and Erosion (81k)
Paleo Time Line (88)
Time Lapse (44k)

Part Two: Fossilization
Create a Fossil (102k)
Tales of the Dead (53k)
How Do You Become a Fossil? (105k)
Crinoid Race (53k)
Fossil Identifications (47k)

Part Three: Adaptations
Race for Survival (71k)
Survival of the Fittest (76k)

Part Four: Human Influences
Shoe Box Midden Dig (87k)
Fossil Search (141k)
Exploring the Past: A Field Trip to Mammoth Cave (63k)

Paleontology Glossary (29k)

Fire Curriculum materials

Fire Curriculum
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			Did You Know? Mammoth Cave is the world's longest known cave. In fact it is so long that if the second and third longest caves in the world were joined together, Mammoth Cave would still be the planet's longest cave and have nearly 100 miles left over!

Last Updated: July 17, 2006 at 16:50 EST