A Teachers Guide to Delaware State Parks
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Field Trips and Outreach Opportunities A Teachers Guide to Delaware State Parks 2015-2016 destateparks.com A Teachers Guide to Delaware State Parks i id you know that Delaware State Parks are great places for students and teachers to explore nature and history? With 16 parks, five historic sites and many natural areas, Delaware State Parks offer you How to Use This Guide a comprehensive view of our natural and historical heritage. Our mission is to provide responsible stewardship of the lands and resources that we have been entrusted to protect and manage, and to This guide is intended to provide teachers an overview of field trips and outreach options for classrooms offerquality learning experiences for students of all ages. as well as to simplify the registration process. Inside are listings of programs, arranged by park, and the accompanying content standards. Each park page provides you with park information, programs offered We can help you connect what you teach to hands-on natural, historical and cultural experiences; from using and contact information to get started on booking your field trip. For complete descriptions of programs a geologist’s hammer and exploring a streambed for minerals, to conducting water quality tests, helping a Civil offered, please visit destateparks.com/school. War laundress with her daily tasks, or using percussion instruments to explore the rhythms of nature, to name just a few. Each park’s pages list a popular Field Trip and Outreach program, a student favorite and sample of other programs available in the park. This list does not include all programs offered; programs can be customized for Whether in the park or at your school, we have programs that: your group. The Other Programs are arranged alphabetically and are designated with the following icons: • Provide a hands-on, real-world experience that make difficult concepts both easier to learn and Field Trip – takes place in the park to remember • Offer alternative teaching methods for students with different learning styles Outreach – takes place at your school • Provide a refreshing break from the classroom while continuing to teach to accepted standards • Expose students to career options that they may not even considered • Introduce students to museums, historical structures and natural spaces that may spur development of life-long interests Understanding the Standards • Expand students’ views of the world so they can see the connections between what they’re learning and everyday life Each program offered by Delaware State Parks is aligned to either the Next Generation Science Standards, • Connect outdoor learning experiences to STEM standards Common Core State Standards, Delaware Social Studies Standards, Delaware Visual and Performing Arts • Overcome barriers related to nature deficit disorder Standards, or a combination of the four. Each category of standard has its own format: Delaware State Parks educators can provide memorable academic experiences for your students in grades K through 12 that are fun for them, easy for you, and constructed specifically to build on and • Next Generation Science Standards enhance the lessons you’re already teaching. We offer field trips for groups small and large, as well as • 3-PS2-2 is read as Grade Level-Topic-Standard exciting outreach programs that we can bring directly to your classroom. • Full standards can be found at http://www.nextgenscience.org/search-standards • Common Core State Standards • ELA.W.3.8 is read as ELA.Domain.Grade.Standard • M.6.RP.A.1 is read as Math.Grade.Domain.Standard • Full Standards can be found at http://www.corestandards.org/read-the-standards/ • Delaware Social Studies Standards • H4.45a is read as Subject Standard (H=History, G=Geography and so on).Grade Range (K-3, 4-5, 6-8, 9-12) • Full Standards can be found at http://www.doe.k12.de.us/domain/66 • Delaware Visual and Performing Arts Standards • VArt-4.4 is read as Subject-Standard • Full standards can be found at http://www.doe.k12.de.us/Page/289 Some programs are aligned to more than one category of standards – For example, Cape Henlopen State Park’s Coastal Defenders Field Trip is aligned to both Common Core State Standards and Delaware Social Studies Standards. In cases like this, standards are listed in the following order: Next Generation Science Standards; Common Core State Standards; Delaware Social Studies Standards; Delaware Visual and Performing Arts Standards. ii A Teachers Guide to Delaware State Parks destateparks.com/school destateparks.com/school How to Use This Guide iii Table of Contents Delaware State Parks Nature and History Programs New Castle County Auburn Heights Preserve ................................................................................................2-3 Bellevue State Park .............................................................................................................4-6 Brandywine Creek State Park ......................................................................................8-10 Brandywine Zoo .. ..........................................................................................................12-14 Fort Delaware State Park ...............................................................................................16-17 Fort DuPont State Park Port Penn Interpretive Center Lums Pond State Park ...................................................................................................18-20 White Clay Creek State Park ........................................................................................22-25 Wilmington State Parks ...............................................................................................26-29 Kent County First State Heritage Park ..............................................................................................30-33 Killens Pond State Park ................................................................................................34-37 Sussex County Cape Henlopen State Park ...........................................................................................38-40 Fort Miles ..........................................................................................................42-43 Delaware Seashore State Park ....................................................................................44-47 Fenwick Island State Park Holts Landing State Park Trap Pond State Park .....................................................................................................48-50 Other DNREC Sites St. Jones Reserve ...............................................................................................................................51 Blackbird Creek Reserve ..................................................................................................................51 Aquatic Resource Education Center ...............................................................................................52 DuPont Nature Center ....................................................................................................................51 Delaware Children in Nature ....................................................................................................................15 REECH – How We Teach at the Beach ....................................................................................................41 How to Plan a State Park Field Trip ....................................................................................................53-57 Special thanks to the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the Delaware Department of Education for their help in making this guide possible. iv A Teachers Guide to Delaware State Parks destateparks.com/school destateparks.com Table of Contents 1 uburn Heights Preserve Popular Outreach: WATER WORKS Grades K – 3 3000 Creek Road, Box 36 45 minutes Yorklyn, DE 19736 Students will learn about the properties of water and how water and steam can be harnessed to make machines operate. Call (302) 239-5687 to register They will learn that materials exist as solids, liquids or gases. Demonstrations will show that heat energy makes things warmer and that heating the water may cause a change in its physical properties. Students will also learn that moving water has energy and how that energy can be transferred to The staff at Auburn Heights offers school programs other objects. that focus on the history of automotive transportation Standards: and steam engines. Students will learn about energy Kindergarten Grade 2 Grade 3 transference, how a steam engine works and how K-ESS3-1 2-PS1.1, 2-PS1-2, 2-PS1-3, 2-PS1- 3-PS2-1, 3-PS2-2, 3-PS2-1, 3-PS2- people have solved society’s practical problems by 4; ELA.W.2.8 3, 3-PS2-4; ELA.W.3.8, ELA.SL.3.3 County Castle New inventing new technologies. $80 per program Student Favorite: MACHINERY MANSION TOUR — FIELD TRIP Popular Field Trip: Grades 3 – 5 1 hour HIKE ON HISTORY Tour the first floor of the Auburn Heights mansion. Learn about the mansion’s construction and its amenities Grades 1 – 5 which were very modern in 1897. We will emphasize the furnishings that include simple machines and how 1 hour they work. Students will see a live steam demonstration, with a focus on how water and steam can create Hike the Trolley Trail, part of the Auburn Heights trail power and the phases of matter and how they relate to water and the operation of a mill. Space is limited to system, and discuss transportation and the Yorklyn-area one class at a time (about 25 maximum).