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- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Trace the course of the Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, and consider the significance of the sunken USS Arizona as a war memorial.
Grand Canyon National Park
Fighting for Voting Rights at Grand Canyon and Across Arizona
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
The fight for voting rights sprawls across the nation. Have student explore Grand Canyon and Arizona's role in the still evolving story.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about the Hoover Dam, located where the Colorado River forms the boundary between the states of Nevada and Arizona,
Grand Canyon National Park
Lumber, The Green Book, and Grand Canyon
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
From lumber workers in Northern Arizona to listings in the Green Book, learn about the ways Black Americans have long contributed to Grand Canyon History.
Montezuma Castle National Monument
Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments Educator's Guide
- Type: Teacher Reference Materials
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This Educator's Guide is intended to provide assistance in preparing for a visit to Montezuma Castle, Montezuma Well and/or Tuzigoot. However, it can be used independently of field trips to the monuments. All activities meet State of Arizona standards.
Grand Canyon National Park
Making Sense of Our World: Upper Elementary
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Guided by our senses, students explore Grand Canyon to look for examples of adaptations and interactions of plants and animals. Using current park science, students investigate the interdependency of living organisms in ecosystems. Arizona Science Standards: 3.L1U1.5
Grand Canyon National Park
Looking Back Through Geologic Time: Middle School
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students analyze Grand Canyon’s rocks to understand how interactions of the geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere have changed over time. Through observation and inquiry, students model the processes of weathering, erosion, and deposition through geologic time. Arizona Science Standard: 8.E1U1.6
Petrified Forest National Park
Clam Beds Geology Hike
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Geology/Clam Beds Hike: Grades 3-8, 60-90 minutes Students hike with a ranger into the badlands of Petrified Forest where they learn how to make observations, read the rocks around them, discover fossil evidence and discuss ideas about Arizona's geologic past. Group Size is limited to 25 students.
Tumacácori National Historical Park
River Ramble
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
This exploratory walk highlights the ecology of the Santa Cruz River Valley. This program will also touch upon the importance of river corridors as locations for traditional O’odham villages. Students will learn about the plants that were used for clothing, tools, and food. Learning will involve inquiry, sensory activities, and language arts.
Tumacácori National Historical Park
Life at Tumacácori
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will investigate how mission life differed from traditional O’odham village life. Did mission children go to school? What did they eat? How does construction of a traditional O’odham home compare to a mission church built from mud? Learn why, when, where and how, as you tour the park’s orchard, garden, and church with a ranger. Students will practice using a traditional mano and metate and learn how to “mud” an O’odham home.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about one of the nation's most important conservation laws--the Antiquities Act of 1906--and how its passage preserved important cultural sites such as Tonto National Monument, which preserves remnants of the Salado culture prior to European contact.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Learn about traditional Hopi culture and farming at Awatovi, a historic pueblo where enduring Hopi traditions and American archeological research reveal much about this important place.
Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
Exploring the Anza Trail
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Welcome to Exploring the Anza Trail, an interdisciplinary program specifically designed for 3rd and 4th grade students. Through a series of hands-on activities, writing and drawing assignments, and a dramatic 50-minute presentation, students put themselves in the shoes of a colonist on the Anza Trail to explore the universal concepts of overcoming obstacles, using resources, and seeking a better life.
Grand Canyon National Park
Superhero Species
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will create original drawings illustrating plant and animal adaptations that they find in their surrounding environment.
Montezuma Castle National Monument
Ladders for Success
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Your 4th graders will learn about the number of family members and community members it took to farm, get water, chop and deliver wood for the fire pits and other daily tasks. They will discuss the labor intensive chore of making a ladder, and then make their own mini version to see how it was done.
Grand Canyon National Park
Current Events – Uranium Mining
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
How do we work together to find sustainable solutions to everyday problems? Uranium mining near the Grand Canyon is a controversial subject. This lesson takes shape in the form of a townhall style debate.
Tumacácori National Historical Park
Critical Source Evaluation
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade
National parks are valuable repositories of information including subject matter experts, photographs, and tangible objects. One of the founding principles of national parks is that this primary source information be preserved so that people may learn from it in the future. Students today may take advantage of this opportunity both in person and online.
Tonto National Monument
The FIRST Field Trip to Tonto National Monument
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Students will be able to state the differences between primary and secondary sources; students will be able to give examples of each type of source. After reading a primary source, students will be able to retell the story of the first field trip to Tonto National Monument.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Guiding Questions: What is stratigraphy? What is the law of superposition? How can archaeologists study stratigraphy to determine the age of archaeological objects? Students will: Explain what stratigraphy is. Describe the law of superposition. Understand how stratigraphy can be used to determine the age of archaeological objects.
Walnut Canyon National Monument
The Bean Lab: Elementary Lesson
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
The Bean Lab