Online Junior Ranger Activity 2 - Videos

Activity 2: Part 1

Watch three of the videos

Activity 2: Part 2

Choose your favorite video. Think about what it would be like to be there. Then be creative and write or create art about your thoughts. For example you could:

• write a poem or story
• draw a picture or sculpt a figure
• make a lego town or shadow box
• make a historic craft like weaving or beading

 

Duration:

5 minutes, 19 seconds

The Natchez Trace Parkway is more than a scenic drive. Discover the many recreational opportunities that can be found along the way.

 

Parkway Videos

 

Duration:

5 minutes, 12 seconds

Once common in the eastern half of the United States, most prehistoric American Indian mounds have been destroyed. Five mound sites remain on the Natchez Trace Parkway; discover what these ancient monuments mean to the descendants of those who built them.

 

Duration:

9 minutes, 35 seconds

Choctaw youth demonstrate their traditional social dances in this instructional video.

 

Duration:

4 minutes, 29 seconds

Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery, died while traveling on the Old Natchez Trace in 1809. He is buried at milepost 385.9. Find out about his final days.