In this workshop, participants will explore how Americans debated who could enter our borders, as well as who was entitled to the benefits and resources of American citizenship.
The purpose of this learning activity is to provide users with targeted training in the functions of the Work Order Reporting Kiosk (WORK) that they need to complete.
This learning activity introduces participants to how history is practiced within the NPS and where we preserve and interpret a vast array of natural and cultural resources.
In this learning activity, participants will acquire foundational knowledge of NPS cultural resources and explore the "why” of cultural resource management.
Explore how you can ask questions with honest and authentic curiosity. Learn about question intensity and how it shifts up and down a spectrum.
This Learning Activity will introduce you to the policy for "NPS Chainsaw Safety for Non-Wildland Fire Operations" and the basics of chainsaw operation.
Essential Theme Questions explore difficult societal topics relevant to our site and our audience. This learning activity is a guide to the starting point.
Dialogic Questions are how interpreters design opportunities for visitors to engage with a place, express themselves, and hear other visitors’ perspectives.
This learning activity is for people who work at sites with historic resources and want to advance their knowledge of historic preservation standards and treatments.
After you have completed this learning activity, you will be able to use relevant, site-specific, resource documents to obtain background information on property history, significance, integrity, and treatment objective.
In this learning activity, participants will learn the types of pruning, proper cuts, timing, and basic tools required in preservation horticulture pruning.
In this learning activity you will learn how to relate problems to planning and scheduling.
This learning activity focuses on the importance of critical thinking and how to solve problems in the workplace.
This learning activity will help you understand opportunities in the construction business and how to enter the construction workforce.
In this learning activity you will learn the importance of social skills and identify ways good social skills are applied in the construction trade.
In this learning activity you will learn how to use good writing skills and apply their relationships to job performance.
This learning activity explains how to use and understand written materials, and it also provides techniques and guidelines that will help you to improve your reading skills.
In this learning activity you will learn the speaking processes and their relationship to job performance.
In this learning activity you will learn about the "character-defining features" for historic properties and how character-defining features relate to historic property significance and integrity.
In this learning activity, you will use the seven aspects of integrity to recognize which aspect of integrity can be most affected by work performed at historic properties.
This Learning Activity provides guidance on good listening skills and how to apply them to job performance.
NPS has defined six turf classes to guide parks in setting objectives for turf management and maintenance. This activity describes classes of turf in the National Park System, which vary by function, asset value, species mix and maintenance requirements. Turf may be valued as a facility asset, a natural resource, a cultural resource, or a combination of these, depending upon the situation.
In this learning activity you will identify the four criteria used by the National Register of Historic Places when determining the “Significance” of a historic property and be able to describe the seven aspects used by the National Register of Historic Places when evaluating the "Integrity" of a historic property.
Online training for Getting Started with Section 106.
Learn about the future of education programming from the eyes of Tom Richter. He'll cover standards, distance learning, working with teachers, and the importance of leveraging partnerships.