Education

The Student Journal is intended to focus the students' learning while they explore Craters of the Moon. It will help to reinforce the knowledge they have already gained through their classroom study of Craters geology, cultural history, and ecology. Upon returning to the school, the teacher can instruct the students to refer to their Journal notes for further Craters exploration.

The students will understand the importance of the Columbian Exchange and how the movement of people, animals, plants, cultures and disease influenced the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Students will also understand how the arrival of Europeans impacted the Native Americans.

The St. Croix 1604 Interpretive Trunk contains a total of 30 items.

Polynesians had a unique sense of place and where they were on an island. They had a vast knowledge of their island home from the mountain to the ocean. Polynesians used a system that is known as wayfinding to chart their destination. Today we use modern navigational tools to find our way through the world.

In this lesson the students will use a student reading to learn about the planning and eventual success of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Just like today, when you go on a trip you plan and pack. Meriwether Lewis planned and packed for the expedition. The activity sheet has the students match some of the supplies Lewis brought with what type of supplies they were. The students also write about how they think planning may have helped the expedition.

A third through fifth grade program about Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo's voyage of discovery. Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo and his crew were the first Europeans to explore and chart the West Coast of the United States.