Jordan Lake State Recreation Area

When visiting this park, students will learn about wildlife, habitats, and the food chain.

http://www.ils.unc.edu/parkproject/visit/jord/home.html

Park rangers hold regularly scheduled educational and interpretive programs at the Jordan Lake State Recreation Area. They also hold special programs for groups and classes. To arrange an exploration of Jordan Lake State Recreation Area for your group or class, group leaders must complete a program application and submit it to the park at least two weeks in advance. Educational materials about Jordan Lake State Recreation Area have been developed for grades K-3 and are correlated to North Carolina’s competency-based curriculum in science, social studies, mathematics and English/language arts. The Jordan Lake program introduces students to local predators and prey and how they fit into a food chain. 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 experiences) 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 Jordon Lake State Recreation Area is “Predators and Prey” for grades K, 1, 2, and 3.

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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