If you are thinking of planning a visit to Yellowstone, here are a few great resources for planning a home school field trip at Yellowstone.
For microbe information, I use this site a lot: http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/index.html
We work with folks at http://www.mbl.edu/index.html , and http://microbes.arc.nasa.gov/
This site has some interesting etrips that students can work through, some are a touch long, http://www.windowsintowonderland.org/
http://www.rcn.montana.edu/resources/features/features.aspx?nav=11 this site is very cool, it has data on all the surveyed thermal features in the park, temperatures and pH
http://www.geyserstudy.org/ I really like this site, there is data on geysers, eruption intervals and information. You can down load data and create graphs and make prediction based on eruption intervals (our geyser lesson steps you through this process).
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/ this page has data on earthquakes, and some creek flows, and the up and down motion of the earth (sometimes inches within a couple years, cool huh!) at the two domes that are in the Yellowstone caldera.
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Beth Taylor is available for day trips in Yellowstone park, Mammoth area. I do not know if she has a minimum group number.
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Yellowstone Interpretation & Education
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PO Box 168, Yellowstone NP, WY 82190
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phone: 307-344-2318
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At Old Faithful when the snow melts and the roads open, there is a Young Scientist program. There are three books, one for each age level. The program helps student look for evidence for life, and volcanism. I would suggest a call down to the visitor center, they have rock samples and tools for students to check out. This would be best before the tourist season gets to heavy.
We have movies available on our site http://www.tbi.montana.edu/media/movieclips.html; the first two would appeal to students.
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