Educators and youth leaders, make an adventure out of learning! Petrified Forest National Park strives to provide high quality curriculum-based educational material for teachers, parents, and students of all grade levels. The resources of Petrified Forest are ideal for exploring topics in many content areas such as earth science, life science, and social studies. 

Petrified Forest National Park contains one of the best Late Triassic fossil assemblages in the world. The forces of deposition and erosion have shaped this a strangely beautiful landscape. The park also contains one of the best native grassland ecosystems in Arizona. The human story at Petrified Forest goes back over 13,000 years. There is much to discover at Petrified Forest!

Whether you're planning a park visit for your students, looking for lesson plans or other resources to use in your classroom or home, or hoping to arrange for a ranger to visit you, you will find it here. Education is a primary mission of the national parks and Petrified Forest is an amazing classroom. Park rangers, teachers and educators all share the effort to connect students to the park.