Learning from the Glades

The cedar glades can serve as a natural laboratory to teach many branches of science.

• Several parks in the central basin have naturalists who lead field trips into the glades.
  • Stones River Battlefield
  • Long Hunter State Park
  • Cedars of Lebanon State Park
• The Center for Cedar Glades Studies has assembled a group of local teachers who regularly teach science out of the cedar glades and developed lessons which are described below.

Who We Are

The exercises listed below are in PDF format. Lessons may be adapted across most grade levels.

Resources

• Tennessee List of Rare Species by County