This is a first teaching day in Yosemite Valley where students learn how to succeed on their NatureBridge program here in Yosemite (knowing where they are, elements of working together) and the basic geologic history of Yosemite Valley.
The Earth Moves can be a theme to connect geology, teambuilding, sense of place, and personal growth, especially on a first day with students. This lesson plan is written as a first day on the west end of Yosemite Valley.
This year theme for Project Pluton focuses on life science and ecology. Students explore what lives in the park and consider how those living things are connected to each other and abiotic factors.
Cards to accompany the Carbon Cycle Journey, in which students travel the carbon cycle as “carbon atoms” going to different places carbon is stored on earth.
This article discusses the management of Wilderness in keeping with the expectations set in the Wilderness Act and as climate change affects those areas.
Students will use their bodies to model the rotation of the earth around the sun and its relative position to stars. They will preview zodiac constellations before going outside to see the stars.