I really like the National Parks service that we have now right here within the U.S. One of many issues I am wanting ahead to doing with my children once they’re a bit older is to assist them discover a number of the locations in National Parks and National Forests that I’ve loved in my life. My love of the outside is why I at all times get excited once I come throughout new and up to date sources from the National Parks Service.
Most National Parks are nonetheless closed proper now, however that does not imply children cannot study them. The National Parks Service presents a big assortment of on-line and offline actions that children can do to study National Parks even when they cannot go to them proper now.
The NPS Games and Challenges assortment consists of video games about animals and landmarks inside parks, drawing and coloring pages, hands-on initiatives like making costumes, and digital scavenger hunts.
The NPS video games about animals are a enjoyable little guessing video games through which college students see a child animal and need to guess what it would seem like when it’s grown up. For instance, are you able to inform if it is a child mountain lion or a child bobcat? The The place the Park Am I? sport exhibits you a 360 picture taken inside a park and it’s a must to guess which park it was taken in. Go right here and see in case you can spot Acadia National Park (that is the one National Park in my state).
Digital National Park Bingo is a sport that asks gamers to discover quite a lot of NPS webpages and exterior sources to finish the bingo board. One of many bingo squares requires taking a nationwide parks digital tour. You possibly can try this on the NPS web site or head to this Google Earth assortment to tour the U.S. National Parks.
Purposes for Schooling
I solely highlighted just a few of the handfuls of actions that you could find on the NPS’ Games and Challenges website. There’s something on there for college students of all ages to attempt on-line and offline. And, after all, lots of the actions will be modified to the wants of your college students. For instance, it would not be onerous to create a distinct model of National Parks Bingo primarily based completely on the imagery and data within the Google Earth assortment of NPS excursions.
On a associated be aware, I supply an on-demand webinar all about utilizing Google Earth and Maps in your classroom. You will discover that webinar right here.