Students will choose another National Park (not in the video), maybe the one they would most like to visit. Students will then research it, and present it to the class. 

Identify and make a list of the landforms in these National Parks.

Ask students to find out how many National Parks there are in the United States and mark them on a large map (or print one out) so students can see where they are.

Have students print out a map of the National Parks and identify where the sites in the video are located. 

A cloze piece has full sentences used in the virtual field trip with blanks where students can write in the information that is missing. This task requires close listening to the trip in order to complete it.

Example: Coral reefs are the _______ type of ecosystem in the world. They’ve been around for over _____ million years.

Answers:  oldest; 240

Alternatively, you could have students create 5-10 cloze statements and they could share those with the class.  

A third alternative is to distribute the cloze worksheets before watching the video.  Students can fill them in as they watch.

Ask students to look into the different classifications of the National Park Service.  For example, what is the difference between a National Park, a National Monument, a National Preserve, etc.

Have each student choose an interesting site from the video, and make a replica of it as well as writing a paragraph to explain why that site was chosen. 

Have you ever visited a National Park? Write about your experience and share it with the class.

Tell students they are going to take a “trip” to 4 National Parks in the United States. They have to write a traveling notebook of their “trip” and include sites that they saw, things that they learned about each park, how each park was created. They will need to detail the cost of entrance fees, rules that they must abide by in each of those four parks, where they are going to sleep (i.e. tent, KOA, rent a camper, lodge), etc.