National Parks Project - Field Bio: Home

You have been assigned a National Park to research. You will ultimately create a presentation as well as a prop related to your park - we will talk about this at a later date.

For your research, you need to use a minimum of three sources. These sources must be:

• Your park's website
• One database
• One source of your choosing (can be database or website)

We will use Noodletools to create a Works Cited page - this is a requirement! Please ask Mrs. Bowlin or Mr. Hume if you need help with this.

You will research the following information about your park:

1. Location and size of park (with picture and/or map)
2. Who founded the park?  What is the story behind the founding?
3. Predominant TOPOGRAPHY of park (with pictures)
4. At least three main ATTRACTIONS of park (with pictures)
5. At least three examples of common VEGETATION in park (with pictures)
6. At least three examples of common WILDLIFE in park (with pictures)
7. What threats are impacting your park?
8. What preservation efforts are happening in your park?
9. An event that occurred in your park that made the news - this can be a fun or serious event and can be a past or current event

This project is worth a total of 100 points. Look on Canvas for the point break-down.

Day 1, 10/16 & 10/17 (in library): Introduce project, set up Noodletools project/review inputting sources in Noodletools, set up notes page, begin research

Day 2, 10/18 & 10/19 (in library - 6th hour will be in classroom): Finish research; review inputting sources in NoodleTools

Day 3, 10/20 (in classroom): Begin working on prop for presentation

Day 4, 10/23 & 10/24 (in library): Introduce presentation requirements, talk about finding images/attributions, begin working on presentation

Day 5, 10/25 &10/26 (in library): Finish presentation

Due date:

• For all classes: notes page and presentation due end of day Thursday, 10/26, submitted to Canvas
• Presentations will begin on Friday, 10/27