National Parks Research Flip Book Foldables

Description

This set of national park research flipbooks includes all 62 U.S. national parks, including the newest, White Sands National Park. Similar to graphic organizers, these activities are more hands-on, engaging, and interactive, and are a great way to integrate literacy into other subjects such as social studies and science.

Students will learn about various aspects of each park as they complete their research including:

• Definition of a national park
• Location (including a mapping activity)
• When the park was established
• Size
• What the park is famous for
• History and historical people
• Activities people can participate in
• Change over time in the park
• Flora (trees & flowers/plants)
• Fauna (mammals, birds, fish, amphibians & reptiles, insects & spiders)
• Physical features

The flip books are comprised of 7 panels across three pages. Each panels features specific topics for students to research, and space is provided for writing and drawing. Clear, easy-to-follow directions for printing, cutting, and assembling the flip books are included. This activity makes an especially great addition to 4th grade classrooms with the Every Kid in a Park program that gives free national parks passes to 4th graders and their families.

I have every intention of keeping this product up to date, but a blank flip book template is also included for any new national parks that may be established. This blank template could also be used for students to create their own national parks. These could be based on real locations in your community or state, or they could be completely made up by students.

This set includes all 62 U.S. national parks:

1. Acadia
2. American Samoa
3. Arches
4. Badlands
5. Big Bend
6. Biscayne
7. Black Canyon of the Gunnison
8. Bryce Canyon
9. Canyonlands
10. Capitol Reef
11. Carlsbad Caverns
12. Channel Islands
13. Congaree
14. Crater Lake
15. Cuyahoga Valley
16. Death Valley
17. Denali
18. Dry Tortugas
19. Everglades
20. Gates of the Arctic
21. Gateway Arch
22. Glacier
23. Glacier Bay
24. Grand Canyon
25. Grand Teton
26. Great Basin
27. Great Sand Dunes
28. Great Smoky Mountains
29. Guadalupe Mountains
30. Haleakala
31. Hawaii Volcanoes
32. Hot Springs
33. Indiana Dunes
34. Isle Royale
35. Joshua Tree
36. Katmai
37. Kenai Fjords
38. Kings Canyon
39. Kobuk Valley
40. Lake Clark
41. Lassen Volcanic
42. Mammoth Cave
43. Mesa Verde
44. Mount Rainier
45. North Cascades
46. Olympic
47. Petrified Forest
48. Pinnacles
49. Redwood
50. Rocky Mountain
51. Saguaro
52. Sequoia
53. Shenandoah
54. Theodore Roosevelt
55. Virgin Islands
56. Voyageurs
57. White Sands
58. Wind Cave
59. Wrangell-St. Elias
60. Yellowstone
61. Yosemite
62. Zion

You may also be interested in some of my other national parks resources:
National Parks Checklist (Free!)
National Parks Word Search
National Parks Research Graphic Organizers
Yellowstone National Park Word Search
Yosemite National Park Word Search

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