2018+Find+Your+National+Park

=Find your National Park=

Ken Burns who created the iconic Civil War Documentary for PBS also created another documentary on America's National Parks. He called them the "Best Idea America Ever Had".

In the Summer of 2017, Mr. Frankmann worked as a Teacher Ranger Teacher in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park right here at home. His assignment was to develop new lessons for the Teaching with Historic Places program centered on the Ohio and Erie Canal which ran through and whose towpath is what connects everything in the Park from the Canal Visitor's Center in Valley View to the Beaver Marsh down in Bath. The lesson was about the Canal Town of Peninsula during the Civil War and featured two men from the town who each served in the 115th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. One was an officer and a Republican. The other was a sergeant and a Democrat. The key question was to determine how each might have voted in the election of 1864- along with the family members they wrote home to regularly. If interested, you can check out a wiki-spaces version of the project site here:

When War Hits Home: The Ohio and Erie Canal Town of Peninsula and the Election of 1864

Work your way down the links on the home page to explore the lesson.

//In this discussion you can let Mr. Frankmann know what you think.//


 * However, this final discussion of the year mainly asks you to use this search engine to explore your interests and find the National Park that you would most like to visit some-day.**

Find Your Park


 * Each park website is packed with photos and features to help visitors plan their trip... and also to help those who cant visit take a virtual visit. Once you find your park, please post your choice here along with a link to the park website and your reasons for wanting to visit.**


 * This will be the final extra-credit discussion of the year.**