Public Lands Across America
Explore America’s National Parks and Public Lands
Take students across some of the most remarkable landscapes in the United States with reading passages about national parks, public lands, wildlife refuges, wetlands, forests, caves and protected natural areas.
Explore places such as Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Everglades, Mount Rainier, Glacier Bay, Mammoth Cave and Crater Lake while building background knowledge in geography, earth science, ecosystems, wildlife and conservation.
From volcanoes and glaciers to giant sequoias and wetlands, each passage gives students a real place to discover while they practice reading comprehension.
Turn Real Places Into Reading Practice
These public lands and national parks reading passages make it easy to connect literacy with science and social studies.
Use them for whole-class reading, small groups, independent work, homeschool lessons, sub plans or enrichment. Depending on the passage, students can work with comprehension questions, vocabulary, online quizzes and printable worksheets, then dig deeper into the location, habitat or natural process they have just read about.
Teachers can choose a passage that fits the topic and reading level instead of building a new lesson from scratch.
National Public Lands Day, National Park Week & More
This collection works year-round, but it is especially useful for seasonal classroom topics such as National Public Lands Day, National Park Week, Earth Day, National Wildlife Refuge Week, geography units, conservation lessons and outdoor learning themes.
Choose a park or protected place, start reading, and let students explore America’s public lands one passage at a time.