Denali offers distance-learning programs

DENALI PARK — The National Park Service has created new free, interactive distance learning programs to help classes learn from Denali National Park and Preserve, available Monday through Friday, Nov. 4 to Jan. 31, 2014.

Denali education rangers will teleport themselves via Skype into third- through sixth-grade classrooms to present fun, standards-based science lessons on sled dog adaptations and the geology of Mt. McKinley.

A new program for kindergarten through 12th-grade classrooms also will let students explore and discover what it is like to live and work in Denali National Park and Preserve and Alaska. This is an informal question-and-answer session that allows for a variety of topics to be discussed.

Registration is open, and forms for scheduling groups and teaching materials are online at 1.usa.gov/19oXt70.

New classes

• The Science of Sled Dogs for grades three through five. Students explore adaptations that make Denali’s sled dogs well suited to living and working in subarctic winter conditions.

• Denali: The High One (geology of the mountain) for grades four through six. Students explore the dynamic geologic processes that have created the tallest mountain in North America.

• Ask an Alaskan: Living and Working in Denali for grades kindergarten through 12. Students explore and discover about life in Alaska and many various topics in this informal question and answer session.

For more information, email DENA_education@nps.gov.