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Quick Questions: 1. What can you do TODAY to make this school a more pleasant place to be? ~ Not being here Essential Questions: 1. What are three fun facts about your park? ~ The first European explorer known to have arrived in the North Cascades was Alexander Ross, a Scottish employee of the Pacific Fur Company, North Cascades National Park has more plant species within its boundaries than any other national park has recorded, and There are more than 300 glaciers in North Cascades National Park. This is equal to one third of the glaciers found in the lower 48 states in the U.S. Tuesday Quick Question: 1. What did you learn about our park doing the profile yesterday that you didn't know before? ~ I haven't done it yet Essential Question: 1. What three parks stood out to you the most in the images you saw in the video today? ~ Grand teton national park Wyoming, crater lake national park Oregon, and hurricane ridge olympic national park Wednesday Quick Questions: 1. What do you have left to do on your national park project? ~ All of it 2. Have you completed the second reading assignment in the workpacket (pages 11-18?)? ~ No Essential Question: 1. What are three things you could do to help reduce solid waste in the environment? ~ Reduce, reuse, and recycle Friday Quick Question: 1. Where is Smoky Mountain National Park? ~Tennessee and north Carolina 2. What is the Appalachian Trail? ~a marked hiking trail in the Eastern United States extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine Essential Question: 1. How can citizens help preserve the national parks? ~ Be respectful of the parks while visiting them
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Monday Quick Questions: 1. Which national park are you going to do your research project on? ~The North Cascades 2. Why did you pick that park? ~It is one that I would love to visit. It is my kind of area. Essential Questions: 1. What are three things that you learned from the first reading assignment in the Unit 5 packet? ~Yellowstone was the first national park. Tuesday Quick Questions: 1. What are wilderness corridors? ~An area of habitat connecting wildlife populations separated by human activities or structures 2. Why is it important for wildlife to have access to mates beyond those that live nearby? Essential Questions: 1. When was your park first protected as a national park? ~ 1968 2. Upload a map of your park.
Wednesday Quick Questions: 1. How big is the park you're researching for your project? ~ 504,781 acres Essential Questions: 1. What did you accomplish today? ~Absent Thursday Quick Questions: 1. Approximately how many people visit your park each year? ~ about 25,000 people per year Essential Questions: 1. What did you accomplish today? ~Absent Friday Quick Questions: 1. U.S. National Parks were in the news this week. Read THIS ARTICLE to answer today's quick questions and essential questions. 2. What announcement did President Trump make on Monday with regard to two national monuments in Utah? ~ He would shrink the size of two national monuments in Utah by approximately 2 million combined acres. Essential Questions: 1. What are the two sides to the debate surrounding the President's recent decision regarding the two national monuments in Utah? ~Fiery debate has ensued across the country between those who argue that the monuments were an overstep of federal power in the first place and those who say the monuments protected sacred Native American land from mining or development. 2. Post your nature center picture. |
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