• A curve along the Natchez Trace Parkway with fall colors

    Natchez Trace

    Parkway AL,MS,TN

  • Parkway Detour in effect near Ridgeland

    An 8-mile section of the Parkway will be closed to vehicular traffic on March 14, 2012, due to a major safety hazard that has developed near milepost 94.8 between Ridgeland, MS, and Clinton, MS. More »

Second Grade Lesson Plans

Science



Spotted Salamander: Students will learn about the life of the salamander by illustrating a book about the spotted salamander.
Alabama Mississippi Tennessee


Scavenger Hunt: Students will walk a trail and tally the different habitats they see. They will then create simple graphs with the information they have collected.
Alabama Mississippi Tennessee


Habitat and Order: Pre-site, on-site and post-site lessons. See Curriculum Materials page for more information and download.



Math

Scavenger Hunt: Students will walk a trail and tally the different habitats they see. They will then create simple graphs with the information they have collected.
Alabama Mississippi Tennessee

Language Arts

and Social Studies

History of the Natchez Trace Parkway: The Teacher will read How the Natchez Trace Came to Be to the students and the students will write a summary report of the book with help from the teacher. Click on sidebar to download the How the Natchez Trace Came to Be book PDF or the Powerpoint.
Alabama Mississippi Tennessee
 

Physical Education

Fire Safety: Students will learn about fire safety and play a game that reinforces what they have learned.
Alabama Mississippi Tennessee

  • Primary Level Powerpoint Story Primary Level Powerpoint Story

    How the Natchez Trace Came to Be powerpoint primary level Read More

  • Primary level book PDF Primary level book PDF

    How the Natchez Trace Came to Be book PDF primary level Read More

Did You Know?

The view from Little Mountain, one of the highest points along the Natchez Trace Parkway.

The terrain along the Natchez Trace Parkway changes from 70 to 1,100 feet in elevation and passes through 5 degrees of latitude.