Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

a CILC Content Provider

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. It hugs the northeast shore of Lake Michigan and includes South and North Manitou islands. The park is known for the huge scalable dunes of the Dune Climb. Beaches include Platte River Point, where the river flows into the lake. The Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail winds through forests and the Port Oneida area with its 19th-century farmsteads.

2023-2024

2022-2023

2021-2022

Programs by Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Anishinaabe: Past and Present - FREE!

The name "Sleeping Bear Dunes" comes from an oral tradition of the Anishinaabe people. Find out more about the Anishinaabe's connection to Sleeping Bear Dunes traditional seasonal activities some still practice to this day. Participants will craft...

Bear Essentials - FREE!

The Bear Essentials program will introduce your students to adaptations black bears use to thrive at Sleeping Bear Dunes and inspire them to think like scientists. Rangers will use costumes and other props to keep younger kiddos engaged throughout...

Climate Change at Sleeping Bear Dunes - FREE!

This program will introduce your students to the concepts involved with global climate change, then dive into the specific effects rangers are seeing at Sleeping Bear Dunes as well as what they can do to make positive changes in their communities.

From Glacier to Dune - FREE!

Can't make it to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore? We've got you covered with our distance learning programs! The Geology program will teach students how the Sleeping Bear Dune landscape has changed over time, from a shallow sea to an icy...

Watching our Watershed - FREE!

What are some of the things that are putting stressing on our watershed, and what can we do about it? We’ll use a model of a watershed to investigate how water moves through our landscape and have a chance to make our own model to test in the...

Water Those? Aquatic Invasive Species! - FREE!

Can't make it to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore? We've got you covered with our distance learning programs! The Water Those? program will introduce your students to the concept of a food web in an aquatic ecosystem. Students will also...

Where's the Ranger? - FREE!

Can't make it to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore? We've got you covered with our distance learning programs! This program will have students use their knowledge of geography to help them figure out what National Park site we are. From...

Type of Organization

Government Agency

Contact

Education Team slbe_education@nps.gov
9922 W Front St
EMIPRE MI 49630
231-326-4736
United States

https://www.nps.gov/slbe/learn/education/distance-learning.htm

Primary Disciplines

The programs of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore cover:

Problem Based Learning
Problem Solving
Science
Social and Emotional Learning( SEL)
History & Social Studies
STEM