In the sessions that follow, park managers and partners will have the opportunity to engage in a dialogue on a number of educational issues and programs. These and other questions will be part of the dialogue sessions. Some parks are already leading the way. By live satellite broadcast, students across the country participate in an interactive field trip. The van carries an aquarium with live critters from tidal pools for the students to see and touch.
Children learn to be good environmental stewards for their neighborhoods and the planet.
They teach and learn at the same time. Each focuses on people of the American West, such as Plains Indians, Mountain Men, and Lewis and Clark, and carries curriculum, videos, CDs, and replicas of artifacts and clothing. Traveling trunks are a proven method of taking parks into remote classrooms and previewing field trips. The other Discovery 2000 topics are natural resource management, cultural resource management and leadership.