The Missouri National Recreational River offers various resources for teachers. Schools in neighboring counties and throughout the United States can contact our park and request brochures. You can also download brochures in PDF format. Teachers can bring their classes to the Lewis and Clark Visitor Center for part or all of their class trips; click on "Plan a Field Trip" above. Park Rangers are generally available to visit local classrooms and deliver presentations about the river, its inhabitants, and the National Park Service; click on "Guest Speakers" above. For those teachers who cannot visit the park, a variety of online sites are listed to help you with your curriculum.
The National Park Service also offers teachers a program called Exploring the Real Thing, a variety of curriculum guides for several NPS sites in the Northeast. As time goes on, these curriculum guides will be offered for many sites across the country. To check out the program, click here.
Did You Know?
At 2,320.7 miles the Missouri is America's longest river. It is 2.5 miles longer than the Mississippi River.