Virtual Visits allow students from around the globe to learn from the Timpanogos Cave System! Our Rangers engage students with interactive lessons aligned with Next Generation Science Standards curriculum.
To request a program, use our Microsoft Bookings Page. You will receive a confirmation email with further instructions on how to confirm your booking. If your school would like multiple presentations in a single day, email our Education Specialist directly.
Access to a computer, a web camera (with a built-in microphone), a projector, speakers, a video conferencing platform (e.g. Google Meets, Zoom, or Teams), and a stable high-speed internet connection is required. This will allow students to make the most of our interactive lessons!
A variety of lessons are available depending on the grade level and interests of your students. For questions, please reach out to our Education Department.
Explore your options below:
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- Timpanogos Cave National Monument
How to Make a Cave
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Subjects: Science
- Tags: cave,erosion,plate tectonics,geology,weathering,Changing surfaces,deposition,chemical weathering
Just the power of weathering, erosion, and deposition is enough to make a cave! Students will explore a virtual scan of Timpanogos Cave to discover evidence of these concepts.
- Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Deep Dweller Adaptations
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Subjects: Science
- Tags: Caves,animals,adaptations,bats,ecosystem
Where do you find food in a cave? How do you see without sunlight? Explore the adaptations of the wildlife that call caves home! Examine tactile examples of structures and functions that allow animals to survive in the extreme cave environment.
- Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Deep Down Showdown
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Subjects: Science
- Tags: acquired traits,inherited traits,traits,cave,Timpanogos Cave,habitat,Survival,ecosystem
Which traits are best for surviving caves? Students will discuss how traits change throughout an organism's life cycle and impact survival. They will also participate in the "Deep Down Showdown" by voting for the animal that can best survive in a cave!
- Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Communities Care in National Parks! Grades 2 and 3
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Level: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade
- Subjects: Social Studies
- Tags: community,problem solving,Conservation,Civics
Explore communities through National Parks! Students will learn the types of communities that use National Parks and compare them to their own. We will also discuss the role of community members and how we work to solve problems in our National Parks.
- Timpanogos Cave National Monument
Ask a Ranger
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Level: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
- Subjects: Literacy and Language Arts,Science,Social Studies
- Tags: cave
Ask a Ranger provides an opportunity for your classroom to interact with a Timpanogos Cave park ranger through a live and interactive lesson via the Internet. Students will prepare questions ahead of time and spend 30-60 minutes with the ranger discussing Timpanogos Cave geology, biology, conservation and human history, as well as what it's like to be a Park ranger and work for the National Park Service.
Last updated: February 14, 2025