National Parks Outline Assignment - DUE NEXT THURSDAY!

To do the outline, we will watch a video of the national parks of the Colorado Plateau.

Each place (3 national parks, 3 national monuments, and 3 other places) is a capital letter with sufficient subdivisions (at least 2 that are listed with regular numbers) under it with at least 1 descriptive detail (lower case letters).

You will have 9 places arranged like this (according to the sample outline set up paper):

I. Other Places
A. Ricketts Glen State Park
1. Waterfalls
a. Harrison Wright
b. B. Reynolds
c. Ganoga

2. Trails
a. Waterfall Trail
b. Bulldozer Trail
c. Hemlock trail

3. Other pursuits
a. Fishing on Lake Jean
b. Snowmobiling
c. Picnics
d. Camping

I have a lot of additional video of them here. According to discussion we have had in class regarding your Internet sites visited (we'll be doing a different project on this later), you know how to search these places out on youtube and google. You can find other video all kinds of places. I recommend seeing as many of these places as you can.

I also have pictures of these places here.

A good website with lots of info on the Colorado Plateau is here.

If I could take great pictures instead of just really good ones, I would be hosting this website.

Both video and pictures include Zion National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Arches National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Waterholes Canyon, the Wave, Antelope Canyon, Ute Mountain Tribal Park, In the Desert Solitaire (a reference to Edward Abbey's incredible book entitled Desert Solitaire), Clear Creek Canyon, and Paria Canyon. Not all of these are on the video, but not all of these are meant for casual hikers.

I KNOW WHICH PLACES ARE IN MY VIDEO AND WHICH ARE ON THE WEB. IF YOU USE ONES THAT AREN'T IN THE VIDEO, YOU WILL LOSE POINTS.

While you cannot do this assignment if you aren't in class, I include this stuff for you to encourage you to see more unique visions of what these places actually look like.

THIS ASSIGNMENT OF 2.5 PAGES OF NOTES AND A FULL OUTLINE IS DUE THE LAST DAY THAT YOU ARE IN CLASS THIS WEEK.

My journeys to the Wave and my finally making it into this geographic wonder are the most influential journeys I have been on since graduating from RACC and Alvernia College to become a teacher. From not getting to this destination on 3 different occasions, the 4th time became a defining moment in my life.

Here, it is.
My 3 videos of my trip to the Wave (story to follow).