Additional Mountains & Caves Resources

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Sites

Some links below are lesson plans for specific Mountains and Caves in preparation for field trips; however, if you review the lesson plan details you can adapt most for general Mountain & Cave activities or adapt to visit your own local Mountains and Caves, so they are worth sharing!

• US Geological Survey: Lesson Plans/Activities for all grade levels 
• Grades 3/4: Teacherplanet: Mountains Lesson Plans
  
• KS2: tes: The Himalayan Mountain range. (Children write either a letter or a postcard home from the Himalayan Mountains.)
  
• Year 3 (age 7) -tes: 5 Weeks Lesson Plan for "Caves"
  
• Year 5 (age 9-but can easily be adapted) tes Mountains & Rivers Creative Topic Planning
  
• EdHelper: Various Grades - Mountains
  
• Squire Boone Caverns: Fantastic 37 page unit plan on Caves
  
• Grades 3-7:  Ms Sayer's Teacher Page: Mountains & Caves (SUnderstand the law of superposition and  how mountains are formed-Click 'Download' from site link)
  
• Grades 6-8: Discovery School: Geography and Culture of the Andes (Lesson Plan)
  
• Grades 6-8: Learn NC: Majestic peaks: Mountains of North Carolina and Ecuador
  
• Grades 7/8: NOAA: Geological Processes that Form Caves (Lesson/Activity)
  
• Grades 7/8: EdSitement: Discovering Prehistoric Humans Through Pictures (How did the Flintstones Really Live?)
  
• Grades 5-8: Watersheds: Through the Mountain and to the Valley (Oregon Caves)
  
• Royal Geographical Society: KeyStage2: Mountains, Volcanoes and Earthquakes Lessons
  
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Lesson Plans (variety of grades)
  
• Appalachian Studies Association: Curriculum Materials (many on mountain cultures)
  
• Rocky Mountain National Park-Teacher Resources
  
• National Caves Association
  
• National Speleological Society
  
• Wikipedia: List of Mountain Ranges
  

Books

• Ming Lo Loves the Mountain, by Arnold Lobel (4-8 yrs)
  
• The Mountains of Tibet, by Mordicai Gerstein (Authori) and Sogyal Rinpoche (Commentary)  (4-8 yrs)
  
• Mountain Night Mountain Day, by Anthony D Fredericks (Author), Kenneth J. Spengler (Illustrator) (4-8 yrs)
  
• Castles, Caves, and Honeycombs, by Linda Ashman (Author), Lauren Stringer (Illustrator) (4-8 yrs)
  
• Cave, by by Donald Silver (Author), Patricia Wynne (Author) (6-9 yrs)
  
• Discovery in the Cave (Step into Reading), by Mark Dubowski (6-9 yrs)
  
• To the Top! Climbing the World's Highest Mountain (Step-Into-Reading, Step 5), by Sydelle Kramer (6-9 yrs)
  
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin (8-12 yrs)
  
• My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics), by Jean Craighead George (8-12 yrs)
  
• Song of the Mountain (Volume 1), by Michelle Isenhoff  Also: Fire on the Mountain (Volume 2) (8-12 yrs)
  
• The Boy of the Painted Cave, by Justin Denzel (8-12 yrs)
  
• The Secret of the Caves (Hardy Boys, Book 7), by Franklin W. Dixon (8-12 yrs)
  
• The Cave of Time (Choose Your Own Adventure #1), by Edward Packard (8-12yrs)
  
• Lost on a Mountain in Main, by Donn Fendler (Author)  and Joseph B. Egan (Contributor) (8-12 yrs)
  
• Mountain Born, by Elizabeth Yates (Author) (9-12 yrs)
  
• ​Echo Mountain, by Lauren Folk (Middle School)
  
• Bear Grylls Adventure Book Series (Middle School)

• Mysterious Life of Caves - NOVA
  
• Mysteries Underground - National Geographic
  

Games/Toys/Educational

• The Cave Board Game (recommended age 8+)
  
• K2 - Mountain Climbing Board Game (recommended age 12+)
  
• Terra Mystica Board Game (recommended age 14+)
  
• Caverna: The Cave Farmers Board Game (recommended age 14+)
  
• Toy: Lego Mini Figure-Mountain Climber
  
• LEGO Creator Mountain Hut 31025
  
• Pencils with Mountain Climber Pick Axe Erasers
  
• PLAYMOBIL Rock Climbers with Mountain Animals Playset
  
• Wood Toy Large Wooden Mountain Range Stacker Toy Waldorf- Nature Table
  
• Natural Waldorf "Grotto" or Cave Blocks
  
• Rocky Mountain Goat Mini Flopsie 8" by Aurora
  
• Online Game (Free) Interactive Cave Study (4th Grade) (Eduplace)