The plans include transportation support for one hundred thousand students each year to visit national parks to learn about nature and history.Yellowstone is believed to have been the world’s first national park when it was established in 1872.Other students will get a chance to see parks in faraway places through Skype and other online programs.
The National Park Service also works with partners to provide education.One of its partners is a nonprofit organization called NatureBridge.NatureBridge is celebrating its fortieth anniversary and says one million young people have taken part in its programs.The organization works with students from kindergarten through twelfth grade and uses national parks as its classrooms.It provides field science programs at Yosemite National Park and four other locations in California and the northwestern state of Washington.
Now,NatureBridge is launching an East Coast center with a four-million-dollar grant from Google.The program will begin in April at the Prince William Forest Park in Virginia.Students stay for three to five days in NatureBridge programs.The activities are aimed at developing their science skills.For example,they learn about different soils and study water quality under a microscope.Jason Morris,executive vice president of NatureBridge says when they are not sleeping,eating or in a laboratory,the students spend their time outdoors.
Julia Washburn is associate director of education and interpretation for the National Park Service.She says in a time of budget cuts,the agency has to find ways to still meet its goals.And one of the most important services that the Park Service provides every day is nature interpretation.
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