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. In connecting across the curriculum, students can write poems and short stories about the West. Those students who enjoy visual arts or who are visual learners can glean some interesting information simply by studying old photographs of the area and also by comparing old and new photographs of the park.