• The setting sun over the Flint Hills casts shadows across the wide expanse of tallgrass prairie.

    Tallgrass Prairie

    National Preserve Kansas

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Curriculum Materials

The following curriculum guides are available for download. Please follow the links for more information.

Lower Fox Creek Schoolhouse Education Program


The Sense of Wonder - 13 MB download
Students are introduced to naturalists as scientists and to author Rachel Carson
as one example of a naturalist. Students listen to an excerpt from a book by
Rachel Carson called The Sense of Wonder. Then, using a data collection sheet
set up inside, students go into the field to search for wonder. Afterwards, they
share their discoveries and draw conclusions.


Science Field Trip

Traveling Trunks

Did You Know?

Grazing cattle at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Cattle can gain up to 2 pounds per day grazing on the prairie grasses of the Flint Hills.  The calcium found in the limestone erodes into the soil, making the prairie plants more nutritious for grazing animals. Cattle grazing is still the main agricultural use of the Flint Hills today.