Format
A Swimming On Your Back book and Teacher's Guide will be mailed to you prior to the program.
Educator Directed Pre-Session Activities
• 20-30 minutes: Watch a video and complete pre-activity.
Test Connection
• 5-10 minutes: Test meeting connection with NPS Zoom, or your organization’s preferred meeting account.
1. Basics: We use Zoom for our Distance Learning (DL) videoconferencing. If your organization has a preferred platform, we can present the DL Live Session through your organization’s link.
2. What you will need for the test and session: Computer, screen or monitor, webcam, and speakers.
3. Test and live-session invites: We both will agree to the date and time for a Test Connection and Live Session. If we are using our Zoom Meeting Room, then an NPS Ranger will email you a link to our meeting room. Use the same link for the Test Connection and the Live Session. If we use your organization's account, then you will need to email the links for the Test and Live Session to the NPS Ranger.
4.During test connection: Join the virtual conference room 5 minutes before the Test Connection begins. Then, we will check audio and video formatting on both sides, as well as the overall quality of the connection.
Distance Learning Live-Session with NPS Ranger
• 20-30 minutes: Session, activity and questions
1. Join the virtual conference room 10 mins before the live session begins.
2. Introduce Kenai Fjords National Park.
3. The session will run about 20 mins with 5-10 mins at the end for students’ questions.
4. After the session CILC or a Kenai Fjords National Park Ranger will email you a program evaluation.
Educator Directed Post-Session Activities
• 20 minutes: post activity.
Objectives
• Students will learn about the National Park Service and what makes Kenai Fjords National Park a special place.
• Students will learn about sea otters and how they live.
• Students will gain an understanding of the importance of sea otters to their ecosystems.
• Students will engage in singing and learning from a Park Ranger.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
K-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.
K-LS1-1: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms
All animals need food in order to live and grow. They obtain their food from plants or from other animals. Plants need water and light to live and grow.
LS4.D: Biodiversity and Humans
There are many different kinds of living things in any area, and they exist in different places on land and in water.