This lesson plan outlines an outdoor education science and geography lesson for 4th-5th graders at Mount San Jacinto State Park/Palms Springs Tramway. Students will identify their own basic needs and those of wildlife by observing the ecosystem. They will learn to apply geography to interpret the past by observing views, the present, and plan for the future. Safety gear like sun protection and medications are required. Standards addressed include characteristics of ecosystems and their components, as well as mental maps and geography applications.

1. OUTDOOR EDUCATION SCIENCE AND GEOGRAPHY
LESSON PLAN (4th -5th)
BY: MARTHA VASQUEZ

2.  “What Kids Need to Bring to Camp”
 Water, comfortable shoes (closed-toe
shoes), jeans, sun hat, sunscreen and snack bar.
 Medications - Parental note for medications

3. Date:
Camp: Mount San Jacinto State
park/ Palms Springs Tramway
Instructor: Martha Vasquez
Supervisor:

4. Standards:
4LS3.c. Students know many plants depend on
animals for pollination and seed dispersal, and
animals depend on plants for food and shelter.
4LS3.a. Students know ecosystems can be
characterized by their living and nonliving
components. 4LS3.b. Students know that in any
particular environment, some kinds of plants and
animals survive well, some survive less well, and
some cannot survive at all.

5. The National Geography Standards
8. The characteristics
2. How to use mental and spatial
maps to organize distribution of
information about ecosystems on
people, places, and Earth's surface.
environments .
17. How to apply geography to
interpret the past.
18. To apply geography to interpret
the present and plan for the future.

6.  Content Objective:
 Students will: 1) identify their own
basic needs for food, water, shelter
and space in a suitable arrangement;
and 2) generalize that wildlife and
other animals have similar basic
needs. In addition they are going to
learn; How to apply geography to
interpret the past by observing the
view and finally how to apply
geography to interpret the present
and plan for the future.