NPS Education Programs will resume in Fall of 2025. Currently, there is no access around the lake as all bridges were destroyed.
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What does an education visit include?
Elementary School, Grades K-2
Life on the Farm: tour Connemara Farms and lean what it was like raising goats with Mrs. Sandburg.
Rotations activities:
- Farm visit
- Ranger-led activity (Life Cycles: Monarch Metaphor activity)
- Teacher-led activity (Farm Life Interactive Puzzle Play)
- Discovery Hike/Activity
- Lunch break if requested
Sandburg Through Time: Students will explore Carl Sandburg through autobiography and poetry.
- Farm visit
- Ranger-led activity. (Connemara Clues, or Every Kid in a Park)
- Teacher-led activity. Prairie-Town Boy
- Hike / Write (Bio Poem)
- Lunch break if requested
Through the Eyes of a Poet: Students explore the Sandburg family through artifacts, literature and science!
- Farm visit
- Ranger-led Genetics activity,
- Hike / Write / Journaling, (materials providied)
- Teacher-led: Sandburg Alive! poetry activity materials provided
- Lunch break if requested
The Sandburg Spectrum: Students learn how Sandburg was often a voice for those who felt they had none.
- Farm visit
- Ranger-led - Poetry and Pictures
- Hike / Write / Video
- Teacher-led: Journaling – Reflections on the Rock
- Lunch break if requested

- Greeting by volunteer and/or park ranger in Main Parking Lot. Find parking lot information here.
- Bathroom stop
- Walk to Amphitheater. Note: Front Lake bridge is closed. This is a 0.5 mile walk to amphitheater, and an additional 0.2 mile walk from amphitheater to house. See trail map with detour here.
- Welcome at amphitheater (house garage behind Sandburg Home, if raining)
- What is the NPS?
- Why does this place exist?
- Leaders assign rotation groups
- Carry in, carry out encouraged, limited trash services
- No concessions at park
- No place to store food; busses and coolers suggested.
- Picnic area, amphitheater or house garage only, please be careful of litter.
Last updated: May 21, 2025