The park is home to 63 species of mammals and 272 species of birds, and the land is dotted with forests, meadows, and lakes. And, of course, there are the glaciers, for which the park was named. They are shrinking now, but, like their predecessors, they are leaving their icy fingerprints in the form of moraines and other glacial features. Connecting Across the Curriculum You can use Glacier National Park as a jumping-off point to study glaciers and the features they carve into the land. You can also tie the study of glaciers in with a study of weather and climate.
Animals offer another avenue of study.
Students, working individually or in groups, can pick any one of the hundreds of animals that live in the park and learn about the animal's life, habitat, and place in the ecosystem. Students can do the same with plants. You might choose to use the park as springboard for having students explore conflicting views of land use. Careers offer another direction to follow. Park rangers, wildlife managers, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, and geologists are some of the careers that students can investigate.