Yellowstone National Park: Hydrothermal Features Activity

Discover the wonders of Yellowstone National Park with our exclusive Hydrothermal Features Booklet—a must-have educational resource for curious students and nature enthusiasts alike. This comprehensive activity leads students on an interactive journey through Yellowstone's iconic geysers, hot springs, fumaroles, and mud pots. Perfect for classroom use or at-home exploration, each page encourages creativity and engagement, inspiring learners to craft their own informative booklets.

Yellowstone National Park was the first established National Park! It comes with incredible elements that it is very well known for: hydrothermal features. This includes the famous Old Faithful geyser!

This activity encourages students to learn about the four main hydrothermal features that are found in Yellowstone National Park: geysers, fumaroles, mudpots and hot springs.

There are two main steps to this activity:

1. They will rotate to four different stations that have info sheets about each of the four features. As they visit each station, they will record the information that they gather on a chart.

2. Once they have their information, they will create a booklet about Yellowstone and each of the features that they learned about.

This product includes:

1. Teacher Directions-including prep info and materials needed

2. Teacher Procedure

3. Student Packet: leads a discussion on Hydrothermal Features and has a chart for students to record information. 

4. Student Packet Answers

5. Booklet Rubric

6. Teacher Tips

7. Two Info Pages For Each Feature (8 total)

8. Two Examples of Booklets pictures

To do this project, students will need:

• Pencil

• Colored pencils/markers/crayons

• Blank paper for booklets

• A copy of the student packet (INCLUDED)

• A copy of the info sheets (INCLUDED)

• Optional: stapler and scissors to make booklets

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