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Park Packs are backpacks filled with field guides, stories, park maps and tools for investigating the outdoors. Most of the award-winning packs are designed especially for 4th through 8th graders, but can also be enjoyed by the whole family. Topics range from birds and fossils to revolutionary times in Yorktown and Pocahontas. They are available at both library locations and require an adult's library card to check out.
Park Packs are a joint venture of the Williamsburg Regional Library, Colonial National Historical Park, York River State Park and the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. This project has been funded by a grant from the Friends of Williamsburg Regional Library. For more information about Park Packs, please call (757) 259-7753.
PARK PACK TOPICS:
(Click on a topic to read more.)
Birds
Colonial Crafts and Industries
Colonial Life
Fossils
Jamestown Archeology
Jamestown Archeology II
Jamestown's Famous People
BIRDS
For use at York River State Park and/or home
Age: kids in grades 3-5 and their families
Includes maps and trail recommendations, binoculars, a blue heron feather, field guide, cassettes of bird sounds and a story about two early Audubon Society founders. reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?COLONIAL CRAFTS AND INDUSTRIES
For use at CNHP's Historic Jamestowne and/or home
Age: kids in grades 4-8 and their families
This backpack explores the early crafts and industries of Jamestown settlers. The pack includes books, magazines, hands on objects, maps, activities and user guides. reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?COLONIAL LIFE
For use at CNHP's Historic Jamestowne and/or home
Age: kids in grades 4-8 and their families
This backpack explores what life was like in Jamestown from 1600's-1700's. The pack includes a video, books, magazines, hands-on games and objects, maps, activities, and user guides. reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?
FOSSILS
For use at York River State Park and/or home
Age: kids in grades 3-5 and their families
Includes maps and trail recommendations, a fossil, bucket and shovel, fossil field guide, a guide to rocks and a book about living fossils. reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?JAMESTOWN ARCHEOLOGY
For use at CNHP's Historic Jamestowne and/or home
Age: kids in grades 4-8 and their families
This pack explores Jamestown Archeology. The pack includes a video, books, magazines, artifacts, maps, activities, and user guides. reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?JAMESTOWN ARCHEOLOGY II
For use at CNHP's Historic Jamestowne and/or home
Age: kids in grades 4-8 and their families
This backpack continues the exploration of Archaeology at Jamestown. The pack includes a video, books, magazine, artifacts, maps, activities and user guides. reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?JAMESTOWN'S FAMOUS PEOPLE
For use at CNHP's Historic Jamestowne and/or home
Age: kids in grades 4-8 and their families
This backpack explores some of the stories of Jamestown's most well-known citizens. The pack includes a video, books, magazine, hands on objects, maps, activities and user guides. reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?NIGHT LIFE
For use at home
Age: kids in grades 3-5 and their families
Includes a flashlight, field guide to the night sky, cassettes of night sounds, books about nocturnal animals and nighttime experiments and a collection of poems about the night. reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?PLANTS AND ANIMALS OF JAMESTOWN
For use at CNHP's Historic Jamestowne and/or home
Age: kids in grades 4-8 and their families
This backpack explores the natural resources of Jamestown Island and compares how the Powhatan Indians and early settlers used those resources. The pack includes books, fandex guide, binoculars, hands-on objects, maps, activities and a user guide. reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?PLANTS AND FUNGI
For use at York River State Park and/or home
Age: kids in grades 3-5 and their families
Includes maps and trail recommendations, field microscope, guides about trees, wildflowers and mushrooms and the story "The Giving Tree." reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?POCAHONTAS AND THE POWHATANS
For use at CNHP's Historic Jamestowne and/or home
Age: kids in grades 4-8 and their families
This backpack explores the world of the Powhatan Indians and their most famous princess, Pocahontas. The pack includes a video, books, magazines, hands-on objects, maps, activities and a user guide. reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS
For use at York River State Park and/or home
Age: kids in grades 3-5 and their families
Includes maps and trail recommendations, magnifier, snakeskin, turtle's shell, field guides and the story, "The Snake Who Was Afraid of People." reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?REVOLUTIONARY TIMES IN YORKTOWN
For use at CNHP's Yorktown Battlefield, Yorktown, and/or home
Age: kids in grades 4-8 and their families
This backpack explores what life was like in Yorktown during the revolutionary war. The pack includes a video, books, magazines, hands-on objects, maps, activities, and a user guide. reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?REVOLUTIONARY TIMES IN YORKTOWN
For use at CNHP's Historic Jamestowne and/or home
Age: kids in grades 4 and up and their families
This backpack explores the life of a sailor during the 1700s, the Siege of Yorktown, and the role the Navy played. The pack includes a video, books, magazine, hands-on objects, maps, and activities. reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?
WATER LIFE
For use at York River State Park and/or home
Age: kids in grades 3-5 and their families
Includes maps and trail recommendations, net and plastic jar, books about wetland and pond environments, "A Kid's Guide to Fishing" and "A Frog's Life," a diary of the life of a frog. reserve this Park Pack back to topics How did you like this Park Pack?
See also:
06|01|01 - Williamsburg Regional Library's New "Park Packs" Encourage Exploration, Literacy
"Take A Hike to the Library" Booklist (books about nature) available in our libraries
Park Packs have been developed by Williamsburg Regional Library staff members Laurie Ziegler and Connie Van Bourgondien.
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