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Joshua Tree National ParkRanger-led program for kids
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Joshua Tree National Park
Ranger Guided
Pre-school & Kindergarten
Natural History Who Lives in a National Park? introduces students in pre-school and kindergarten to the differences between pets and wild animals and what desert animals are.
 
First & Second Grades
Natural History Earth’s Bare Bones: Desert Landforms explores the different types of landforms found in deserts and helps students understand how rocks are formed and the makeup of minerals in rocks.
Habitats introduces students to the concept of what animals need to survive.
Cottonwood Habitats introduces students to the concept of what animals need to survive.
 
Third & Fourth Grades
Natural History The Joshua Tree Hotel engages students in exploring the world of the Joshua tree and its symbiotic relationship with many desert animals.
Geologic Teenagers: The Rocks of Joshua Tree National Park helps students discover how the rocks of Joshua Tree were formed and eroded. (fourth grade)
Desert Adaptations engages students in exploring how plants and animals have adapted to survive in the desert. (fourth grade)
Cottonwood Desert Adaptations engages students in exploring how plants and animals have adapted to survive in the desert. (fourth grade) (given at Cottonwood Spring)
Cultural History Ryan Ranch: People, Land and Water helps students look for evidence left behind by human inhabitants of the park.
Keys to the Past explores how successful homesteaders survived in the desert.
 
Fifth & Sixth Grades
Natural History Geologic Teenagers: Rocks and Faults helps students discover how the rocks of Joshua Tree were formed and eroded.
Desert Adaptations engages students in exploring how plants and animals have adapted to survive in the desert.
Cultural History Keys to the Past explores how successful homesteaders survived in the desert.
Jr Ranger Unit Jr Ranger Unit offers students a chance to explore their desert in depth and earn a junior ranger badge.
 
Middle & Jr High Students
Natural History Tortoise, Tortoise launches students into a study of the desert tortoise through scientific study practices using tortoise replicas.
Cultural History Epitaphs on Rock helps students explore American history in the 1920s and 30s through writings on rocks.
 
Highschool Students
Natural History Desert Connections engages students in how the rocks, plants, animals and resource impacts are connected in our desert lands.
Cultural History Epitaphs on Rock Discover clues to the 1920s and ’30s in the rock etchings of an eccentric miner.
Research Opportunities Discovering the Ancients: Science in Action has student participating in a science research project for the park that deals with desert plants. In class presentation is required to participate.
49 Palms Oasis  

Did You Know?
Five of North America's 158 desert fan palm oases are located in Joshua Tree National Park, where fault lines force water to the surface.
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Last Updated: August 14, 2006 at 17:22 EST