Curriculum Guide

The National Park Service is happy to share a curriculum guide to teaching with the Ice Age Floods, "Investigating Ice Age Floods."

Welcome! We are so glad you’re joining us on this journey of discovery. This educator’s guide provides adaptable lesson plans and other resources to help you engage students with the forces that created our dramatic landscapes. This includes the most recent Ice Age Floods some 18,000 to 15,000 years ago, which crossed Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, as well as the forces that created the rocks they eroded and more. Students experiment with scientific phenomena, ask questions, analyze and interpret data, construct explanations, engage in argument from evidence, and obtain, evaluate and communicate information. In short, they get to be scientists as they explore the awe-inspiring phenomena of our Northwest (NW) landscapes and the processes that created them through hands-on investigations, field studies, and other engaging projects.  

Here is a link to the curriculum guide - Investigating Ice Age Floods -Teachers Guide