Boiled down to its purest essence, the National Park Service's Parks as Classrooms program is all about helping children understand their world. It is a concerted nationwide initiative to utilize the wonderful resources of the parks for teaching and learning purposes—in the process, education becomes active, experiential and fun.
Currculum-based materials were developed in 1996 and are tied to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).
These guidebooks are in PDF format and require
Adobe Acrobat Reader to properly view and print them.
