Say hello to Wrangell–St. Elias National Park in Alaska. It’s got glaciers, volcanoes, and even a ghost town.

📏 Size: 13.2 million acres!

🇨🇭 That’s over twice the size of Yellowstone and bigger than the entire country of Switzerland. Whoa.

• Great Sand Dunes

• Badlands

• Congaree

• Haleakalā

Conduct a quick search for the weirdest-sounding national park name and share your favorite when you fill out the Park Pass! Bonus if you invent your own strange-sounding park name!

🧙‍♂️ I’d like to visit “Stormcloud Ridge National Park.” How about you?

In your mind, picture the front of the postcard:
What’s the view? A waterfall? A starry sky? A forest trail?

Now imagine what you’d write on the back:

• What did you see, hear, or feel in this place?

• What do you want to share about the experience?

• Why do you want this person to know about it?

Feeling inspired? Head to Canva and create your own digital National Parks postcard and share it with Mrs. Maahs (maahsk@lmsd.org) to be displayed in the library. NOTE: You are not required to make or submit anything if you do not want to - you can also take a moment to think about the connections you’d want to make through your park adventure and share about it when you fill out the Park Pass!

You don’t have to actually make your trailer (unless you're feeling super inspired & then you should go to Canva and definitely do it & share it with Mrs. Maahs maahsk@lmsd.org)! Not quite ready to create a trailer yet? You are quite welcome to stay in the ideation phase of creativity and BRAINSTORM ideas for a future trailer- share your ideas in the Park Pass reflection!

Think about:

• What would your title be?

• What music would you use?

• What scenes would you show?

• What feeling would you want the audience to walk away with?

  
  

Feeling inspired? Check out the Spring Writing Competition to share and dig into more poetry!

Pick one or more questions below to spark your thinking and reflect on your connection to nature. Consider journaling your responses digitally or on paper (perhaps you might even capture your thoughts and watch as they evolve to become the beginning seed of an entry for the Spring Writing Competition(!)...or simply spend time being still and give your brain time to pause and ponder your experiences in nature. Bonus points - conduct this reflection it outside!

PS- If you weren't a nature lover before, you might just be ready for a new era after you dive deep into the beauty that awaits!

NATURE REFLECTION QUESTIONS

1. What’s one of your favorite memories in nature?
   (This could be a park, a backyard, a vacation, or even just looking at the sky.)

2. Have you ever felt awe in nature?
   What were you seeing, hearing, or feeling in that moment?

3. If you could spend a whole day outdoors anywhere in the world, where would you go and what would you do?

4. What does being in nature feel like to you?
   (Relaxing? Exciting? Peaceful? Something else?)