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Parks

Explore the beauty and purpose of parks with this engaging homeschool unit study designed for elementary students. Your child will discover national, state, and local parks through hands-on activities, reading, writing, and geography lessons. This nature-focused curriculum encourages outdoor learning while covering science, history, and map skills. Perfect for homeschool families seeking an educational, adventure-filled unit study about parks and the environment.
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Parks

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Explore Nature with This Engaging Parks Unit Study

Which president hiked and camped for four days in Yosemite National Park? Why do fumaroles in Yellowstone smell like rotten eggs? Which national park is larger than the country of Switzerland?

Learn who created the National Park Service and the requirements of being a national park. Read about the native species that have been eliminated from national parks and those that have been recovered from the edge of extinction. Locate national parks on a United States map. Learn which river flows through the Grand Canyon. Demonstrate a geyser. Model multiplication and division using M&Ms, and calculate the area of shapes. Use a chart to record information. Make estimates and predictions, then draw conclusions. Walk in a park, and collect leaves to make leaf-rubbing patterns. Read words containing open syllables and ending syllables of consonant-le. Learn when y sounds like and i and when it sounds like an e. Write an acrostic poem about parks. Write compound words, synonyms, antonyms, and abbreviations. Make a kite and fly it in a park. Use onomatopoeia to make sound patterns.

Student workbook pages are designed to reinforce the daily concepts and are included within the unit.

Includes:

  • Documentation of skills taught within the unit study
  • Detailed lesson plans
  • Step-by-step instructions for teaching your child
  • Activities for different learning styles
  • Enrichment activities to challenge advanced learners
  • Handwriting guidelines
  • Worksheets for practice with each lesson
  • Reading practice pages
  • Literature List
  • Materials List
  • Templates for resources:
    • Calendar
    • Hundred Chart
    • Spelling Squares
    • Square Tiles