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Itinerary:

We will begin by reading the book “A to Z Yellowstone” by Lisa Halvorsen.  Then we will look at photographs of Yellowstone National Park on the internet.  We will find Yellowstone National Park and identify it on our maps.

 

We will watch the Old Faithful webcam in hopes that we can see the geyser erupt!  We will also watch an online video.

 

After we have watched the video and talked about Yellowstone National Park, we will create our postcards from Yellowstone.  On the other side, we will write three facts we learned about Yellowstone National Park and one question we have about it.

 

 

Where is Yellowstone National Park?

 

 

 

Links:

Photographs of Yellowstone National Park

Live Old Faithful webcam

Yellowstone video

 

Important Information about Yellowstone:

Yellowstone National Park is located in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.  It is the first National Park in the world, as well as the oldest.

 

 

It covers 3,470 square miles, and is mostly in Wyoming.

 

 

 

 

 

Yellowstone is home to geysers, hot springs, grizzly bears, wolves, bison and elk.

 

    

 

The park dates back to 12,000 years when Native Americans hunted and fished in the region.

 

 

 

Jim Bridger went on an expedition to the Yellowstone area, and came back to tell of boiling springs, spouting water, and a mountain of glass and yellow rock.  Since he was known to “spin yarns,” he was pretty much ignored.

 

 

The Continental Divide runs diagonally through the park.  The Yellowstone River and the Snake River both originate near the Continental Divide, but the Snake River heads towards the Pacific Ocean while the Yellowstone River heads towards the Atlantic Ocean.

 

 

 

The park is bounded by the Gallatin Range, the Beartooth Mountains, the Absaroka Mountains, the Wind River Range, the Teton Mountains, and the Madison Range.

 

 

Yellowstone National Park is home to the largest volcanic system in North America, the Yellowstone Caldera.

 

 

62% of the planet’s known geysers are within Yellowstone National Park.  There are over 10,000 hot springs and geysers.

 

 

 

The Old Faithful Geyser is the most famous geyser in the park.

 

 

 

Yellowstone is also the home to the Steamboat Geyser, the largest active geyser in the world.