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Tactile Trunks 

NPS Trunks
"Traveling Trunks" are one of the best ways to bring a park to your classroom. Tactile objects reach your kinesthetic and visual learners as well as bring history, flora, fauna, and current park issues alive.
When using the link above: Search for a specific park, then choose "Learn about the Park," next choose the "Education" link. Trunks available through specific parks are usually listed under this heading. 
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Regional Manager, Kevin Price, talks with students at a Career Fair in 2015, held at Peninsula (Portland Public Schools). 
Information about State Park (OPRD) team members in the Gorge. Mr. Price speaks about boosting diversity in Oregon State Parks.
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 Oregon Historical Society

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Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum

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High Desert Museum
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National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
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Columbia River Maritime Museum

Presenter Ideas

Contacts at local city, county and state parks will be more readily available to visit your classroom. Ask  the presenter if there are connections between work in local parks and work in National Parks. 
Can't nab a presenter? Try an electronic field trip!

From Local to Federal Parks

Take the opportunity to teach students about local, county, state, and federal park designations. 
Introduce students to federal preservation of land.
Student listening guide.

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Contact: 
Portland Parks and Recreation
Park Ranger Office Telephone, 503-823-1637

“An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.” 
~ Richard Louv, 
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
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