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(Updated on 10/05/2011)


 

 


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Coney Island - Grand Canyon - Yellowstone - Yosemite

 


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List :

  • National Park Guide (nps.gov)
    - View all Parks A-Z
    See an alphabetical listing of National Park Service sites.
    - Geographic Search
    Locate parks on a map, by state, region, or zip code.
    - Search by Topic
    Search for parks by recreation and special topics ... from boating to dinosaurs to the Civil War.


Facts :

 

 

Images : - UPDATED

 

  • Images - National Park Service - Digital Image Archives (nps.gov)
    Images of National Parks, Monuments, Battlefields and Historic Sites

 

 

Symbols :

 

Poems :



Webquests :

  • Advertising Agent for the U.S. National Parks Department
    "Students work individually or in small groups to investigate attractions
    - such as battlefields, monuments, and historic sites
    - in the U.S. National Parks System.
    Each student or group then uses the information gathered to create a visitor's guide for one of those attractions.
    Each guide must include three pictures and detailed descriptions of five noteworthy features of the attraction."
    (Education World)
  • United States and Canadian National Park Presentation
    "You are a Park Ranger and are lucky enough to have a partner.
    You work in one of the United States or Canada s national parks.
    Visitor attendance has dropped dramatically. Your boss is very concerned, as are you.
    Your job, along with your partner, is to make a Power Point presentation to attract new visitors to your park."
    (pocanticohills.org)

 

Videos :

  • MOVIES (Old Bluejacket's Patriotic Flicks)
    MILITARY & PATRIOTIC MOVIE SELECTIONS -
    NOSTALGIC MOVIE SELECTIONS (Take Me Back to the '60s...) -
    SCENIC MOVIES of AMERICA
    (Beautiful Dixie - The Living Desert - Our National Parks - America, Why I Love Her, narrated by John Wayne...)

 

 

 

Coney Island :

  • Coney Island - The ups and downs of America's first amusement park
    Special Features / Film Clips / Timeline / Gallery / People and Events / Teacher's Guide
    (PBS)

 

Grand Canyon :

  • 'Uranium rush' prompts Grand Canyon fears 
    "A new "gold rush" is under way in the American West, but this time the prospectors are out for another metal: uranium.
    The Grand Canyon region in the US state of Arizona holds one of the nation's largest concentrations of high grade uranium, the fuel for nuclear power."

    + VIDEOS

    (BBC)





    Do uranium mines belong near Grand Canyon?
    "Mining companies stake claims on federal land adjoining the park, while opponents say drinking water will be at risk."

    (csmonitor.com)

 

  • Let's go to Arizona!
    "How much do you know about Arizona? Here are several activities related to this famous state.
    Listen , look , play and learn.
    "
    Activities created by Renée Maufroid







Yellowstone :

 

  • Yellowstone - A WebQuest (Isabel Perez)
    "The park of yellowstone is the most important national park of the United States. Not only for its natural captivation and landscape beauty, but also for its volcanic peculiarities.
    Are you ready to prepare an expedition to yellowstone?"





  • Yellowstone National Park (amalnet.k12.il)

 

Yosemite :