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Ranger explaining puebloan farming techniques.

Pecos National Historical Park provides many learning opportunities (history, nature, geology, culture) for teachers and their students, including ranger-led programs and self-guided field trips. To plan a field trip, please click the link above. 

For links that provide ideas for teaching about history, nature, and culture, see the list below.

• Teaching with Historic Places is a National Park Service site that uses properties listed in the NPS National Register of Historic Places to enliven history, social studies, geography, civics, and other subjects. Visit the link to access lesson plans and other resources to help bring historic places into your classroom.
• To find Federal Resources for Educational Excellence lesson plans related to New Mexico, click here.
• For the general NPS "For Teachers" site, please click here.
• For "Curriculum-Based Programs in Your National Parks," visit this link.
• For lesson plans and ideas about teaching history with a connection to learning about archeology, visit the Crow Canyon Archeological Center education pages.
• For a series of new National Park Service-centered science learning videos, go to the North Coast Cascades Science Learning Network (SLN) website and begin with "Taking the Pulse of the National Parks." Each movie is about four minutes long. Students will see scientists work to preserve park ecological health and historical riches; you'll find information about glaciers, intertidal zones, and wind-swept prairies.
• Have you visited the National Park Service "Explore Nature" website yet? Here is a representative link concerning Natural Lightscapes.
• For engaging lesson ideas about Natural Sound resources, visit this NPS link and scroll down to the "Explore Sounds" selections on the left-hand side of the page. Students can hear sound clips by linking here.
• If you seek information about the "Teacher-to-Ranger-to-Teacher" program (in which Pecos National Historical Park participates), go to this NPS link.

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New NPS Civil War web portal

Teachers, also be sure to investigate the NPS Civil War site, which includes photographs, timelines, articles, event listings, helpful links, a look at life before, during and after the war, and much more.

Here's a link to The Civil War: 150 Years--National Park Service Sesquicentennial Commemoration.