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WELCOME TO THE T.H.HARRIS JEAN LAFITTE PRESERVE PROJECT



8th grade students in Ms. Lusignan's Louisiana History Classes explored the preserve using digital cameras, digital video, and GPS units. The students took notes and photographs on the Coquille Trail and tagged them using GPS units. Some students uploaded the photographs to Google Earth, while other students use dip nets in Bayou des Families and explore the aquatic fauna of Bayou des Families. Upon completion of their tasks, the students blogged about their experiences on [|www.harrisjlnp.blogspot.com] Students, additionally created online notebook,that combined pictures from the past with the pictures from the present The students used pictures from The Library of Congress, LOUIS,( Louisiana's online digital library) and the Louisiana State Museum.

media type="custom" key="6205245" width="455" height="455" Click on this map, to see what the students saw in January 2010 along the Coquille Trail and at Bayou des Families in the Jean Lafitte Barataria National Park.



Click on the Spanish Moss above, to access the students' notebppk about various flora and fauna at the preserve, as well as historical photographs.