Students will use observation skills to memorize objects in a finite area. Later, when their area is “accidentally” destroyed, they will question what it means to feel ownership and how that changes the way people care for someone or something.
Print and use these instructions to give to your students when doing letters to self with your students. Instructions can help guide students as they write their letter and address their envelope.
This lesson explores the ripple effect of humans on Yosemite Valley by visiting many sites where evidence remains and concludes with a stewardship project.
Students get to be leaders on this challenge hike up the 4-mile trail. Students learn about leadership and the leadership compass as well as how to successfully complete a difficult hike as a team.
Students learn about trophic levels, the energy pyramid, and examples of mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism before considering their own relationship with the natural world.
Students learn about and experience Yosemite’s geology as they hike from Yosemite Lodge to the recessional moraine by El Capitan Meadow. Specific topics include the rock cycle, plate tectonics, the formation of Yosemite Valley, and earth history.