Morrow Mountain State Park

Students will learn about the geological processes which formed the Uwharrie Mountains when they visit Morrow Mountain State Park.

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This State Park is located in the ancient Uwharrie Mountains, one of the oldest mountain ranges in the eastern United States. Their waters and woodlands are home to a variety of plant and animal life.

Rangers hold regularly scheduled educational and interpretive programs about Morrow Mountain State Park. Educational materials about the park have been developed for grades 5-7 and are correlated to North Carolina’s competency-based curriculum in science, social studies, mathematics and English/language arts. The Morrow Mountain program introduces students to the basic geologic processes of the Uwharrie Mountains. Accompanying the program is a teacher’s booklet and workshop, free of charge to educators.

Each state park and recreation area has an EELE (environmental education learning experience) curriculum guide that includes on-site activities, pre- and post-visit activities, student information pages, worksheets, fact sheets, vocabulary, and references. You can receive a free copy of an EELE by attending its corresponding workshop at a park, or you can borrow these guides through interlibrary loan at any public library in North Carolina. The EELE for Morrow Mountain State Park is Old as the Hills for grades 5, 6, 7, and 8.

The North Carolina State Parks website offers a search feature for finding the plants and animals that can be found at each state park. Using the drop-down menus, you can choose a park and either an amphibian, bird, reptile, mammal, fungus, insect, or vascular plant. You can search within each group by family, scientific name, or common name. There are photographs from the state parks and fun facts for some of the species.


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