National parks are America's largest classrooms. Find lesson plans about these great places.
NASA/NPS Spaceflight Explorer Junior Ranger booklet
Place-based lesson plans that teach history through images, maps, readings and other primary source documents.
Teachers! Join NPS in the summer to experience nature and history firsthand and earn graduate credit for your re-certification.
To help reach our next generation of park visitors and supporters, NPS wants all 4th grade students to visit their public lands & waters!
Take your students on a "virtual field trip" where they can talk with a ranger or go behind the scenes at a park…
Want to borrow some educational materials from a park? Check out a traveling trunk or other media for loan
Find information about Field Trips and Field Schools here.
Includes: Primary Sources, science labs, and other in-class activities.
Find out about the Teacher-Ranger-Teacher summer program, teacher workshops, and more
Check out a range of other NPS educational materials here.
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