Back to School in America's National Parks: New NPS Website Helps Teachers Make Learning Relevant and Fun

Today, National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis - with help from Adrian Burney's eighth grade social studies class at Hyattsville Middle School in Maryland - launched a new National Park Service online service for educators that uses spectacular natural landscapes to teach science and the authentic places where history happened to infuse an understanding of the challenges we have faced as a nation.