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Lesson Plans & Teacher Guides
 

Glacier Teacher's Guide - K-12 teacher guide which incorporates American Indian activities and information from Work House as well as other pre- and post- visit lesson plans for Glacier National Park field trips.

The Wilderness & Land Ethic Curriculum - K-12 lesson plans from the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center which introduce students to the concept of wilderness.

FireWorks Curriculum - K-12 lessons created by the U.S. Forest Service Fire Lab in Missoula, MT which features ponderosa, lodgepole, and whitebark pine forests. It provides students with interactive, hands-on materials to study the forces that cause change in forests, particularly wildland fire.

Teaching with Historic Places- Glacier's Going-to-the-Sun Road - A secondary school level lesson that is part of a series which brings the important stories of historic places into classrooms across the country.

Ecosystem Education (COCEEC) Activities - Secondary level lesson plans about the history of the "Crown" and perspectives on land management.

Indian Education - Links to all the pdf files that make up Work House: A Glacier National Park Science Education Program created by Terry Welder and the Division of Interpretation at Glacier National Park with the help of many people from the tribal cultural committees, and the reservation school systems (revised 1998).

Snow can fall at any time of the year in Glacier  

Did You Know?
Did you know that eight inches of snow fell during one night in Glacier's high country in August, 2005? The weather forced hundreds of backpackers out of the backcountry.

Last Updated: February 06, 2009 at 12:07 EST