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Summer Workshops for Teachers

The Chumash: A Changing People, A Changing Land- 3rd-4th grade

Parks as Laboratories: Studies of Land, Water, and Air- Middle School

National Park Labs: Studies of Wildland Fire Ecology-High School

EcoHelpers- Middle and High School

National Park Legacy- 1st through 12th Grades

Struggle and Opportunity: A California Cultural Journey- 3rd through 5th Grades

Internships College Students

Stuggle and Opportunity: A California Cultural Journey
Fourth and Fifth Grades

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The curriculum-based Stuggle and Opportunity: A California Cultural Journey program compares and contrasts four cultures that existed in southern California. This in-school program examines the Native American Chumash and Tongva cultures, and the Mexican Mission and Rancho cultures of the 1800's - 1870's. Fourth and fifth grade students will have an opportunity to investigate these cultures with hands-on replica artifacts. Students will recognize that contributions by cultures of yesterday continue to have a strong and lasting impact on us.

Although we no longer do the program called One Land: Many People, Many Ways, a PDF of the Teacher's Manual for is still available on-line in PDF format.