Kids & Education

Rangers and children experince the fun of forts at Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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Fort Fun!

Play A Game!
Checkout these fun fort games online.

Protect the Harbor Online Game
Check out this online WebRangers game to learn how forts protector harbors and why certain locations are good for forts!

Hold the Fort Online Game
Hold the Fort is an online game of survival, strategy and nerve in the War of 1812 from Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine. There's great teacher resources and historic information accompanying the game as well!

Sing A Song!
Enjoy this tune about forts from the award-winning CD Songs for the Junior Ranger.

• Castillo De Lodo

  
  

  This song was co-written by the Centennial Elementary School Cultural Music Club and Park Ranger Jeff Wolin. It is about Bent's Old Fort National Historic site.

  Credit / Author:

  NPS

  Date created:

  10/14/2020

  Audio Transcript

  On the border of Mexico there was a trading post looked like a castle, Bent's Fort was its name to make a fort so tall, they had to have strong walls made bricks from a mix they called adobe

  They had a recipe, the ingredients came to be The Castillo de Lodo, the Castle of Mud, Castillo de Lodo they mixed up the mud and added el agua, zacate, la arena, El sol y tiempo, Castillo de Lodo

  Trappers and traders, hunters and freighters servants and cooks and a blacksmith or too Mexican laborers, Native Americans cultures combined like a buffalo stew

  They were the recipe to build a community at the Castillo de Lodo, the Castle of Mud, Castillo de Lodo they mixed up the mud and added el agua, zacate, la arena, El sol y tiempo, Castillo de Lodo

  Baile Juntos Mezcla

  Castillo de Lodo, the Castle of Mud, Castillo de Lodo they mixed up the mud and added el agua, zacate, la arena, El sol y tiempo, Castillo de Lodo

  Castillo de Lodo, Castillo de Lodo, Castillo de Lodo Baile

Visiting Forts with Children
Want to know what it's like to visit a historic fort with your school or family? Check out this video from Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco as they walk you through a fort visit in Spanish, Mandarin, and English!

Duration:

6 minutes, 45 seconds

An introductory video about Fort Point that is open captioned, audio described and provided in English, Spanish, and Chinese.