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Preserving the Past: 6th - 8th grade
Canyon Connections: 5th - 8th Grade
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Canyon Connections program explores the relationship between living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) in three Grand Canyon ecosystems. Participants will be asked to make observations as they investigate interactions between living and non-living and understand how these interactions shape adaptations for survival. Program is given by Grand Canyon Park Rangers via Distance Learning and is intended for 5th through 8th grade.
Meet Missouri, 7th & 8th grade
Missouri Compromise, 7th & 8th grade
Border Conflict 7th & 8th Grade
Order No. 11 7th & 8th Grade
Compromise of 1850, 7th & 8th Grade
Scientific Discovery Trunk 6th-8th Grade
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This trunk includes exhibit and modern scientific equipment, a resource guide, books, posters and more. It offers students an opportunity to learn about the natural scientific observations from the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the impacts of the changes which have occurred over the past 200 years.
Missouri Capital Mural 7th & 8th Grade
1st Kansas Colored Infantry 7th & 8th Grade
Chouteau Trade/Osage Nation 7th & 8th Grade
"Fishy Business" Don't Let It Loose: 5-8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students will examine the effect of exotic species on an ecosystem by role-playing both a healthy food chain and one that has been impacted by Mayan cichlids. Students will also be able to discuss a basic food chain, define and give examples of exotic species, and discuss how exotic species can disrupt a food chain.
"Break the Chain" Don't Let It Loose: 5-8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Our "Don't let it Loose" unit is broken into seven lesson plans, each taking 45 minutes to 4 classroom periods to complete, and targeted primarily at middle school students. A class needn't complete every lesson in the unit, though some lessons do refer to one another. However, each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources.
"Unwanted Guests" Don't Let It Loose: 5-8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
“Population Explosion” Don't Let It Loose: 5-8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will be able to recognize melaleuca and tell how the seeds are dispersed. They will describe that melaleuca produces over 1 million seeds per year and have a concept of how much that really is. Students will determine the population of melaleuca seeds for their wetland ecosystem through sampling.
Fort Clatsop Explorers Traveling Trunk 6-8th Grade
- Type: Traveling Trunk
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Fort Clatsop Explorers provides objects and activities about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and their winter stay at Fort Clatsop in 1805-06. A few of the objects included are: buckskin clothing, candle mold, flint-n-steel fire starting kit, powder horn, trade items, Jefferson Peace Medal, examples of furs and a housewife (sewing kit).
"Go Back Home" Don't Let It Loose : 5-8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
"Going, Going, Gone" Don't Let It Loose: 5-8th Grade
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
6th-8th Grade | Shenandoah Salamander: Climate Change Casualty or Survivor?
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

The Shenandoah salamander is an endangered species found only on a few rocky slopes within Shenandoah National Park. Its survival is being threatened by changing climate and habitat competition from the more common red-backed salamander. Students will conduct field research on the red-backed salamander to compare the two salamander species’ habitat requirements and determine how climate change and habitat competition are impacting the survival.
Virtual Visit: Career Day - Park Ranger - 5-8th Grade
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Join a Park Ranger live and explore the amazing jobs of Park Rangers! Students will explore the many jobs a Park Ranger may have including scientist, law enforcement, tour guides, educators, archeologist, and more. At the end, students can chat with a Park Ranger and ask questions about working in our National Parks.