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Cumberland Island National Seashore

Beach Survey

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Every year approximately 14 billion pounds of trash are dumped into the ocean. This trash can create problems for people and wildlife. In this lesson, you can help your students better understand this important issue.

Assateague Island National Seashore

Beach Walk

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Assateague is moving! Toes in the water, sand in their hands, and wind in their hair; students will explore the processes of barrier island ecology. Students will also discover the necessary adaptations required to survive in this ever-changing environment.

Acadia National Park

A Day at Sand Beach

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Story maps are virtual and visual way to teach about specific locations. Sand Beach is a great example of beach formation and processes. Use the story map to explore the phenomena of Sand Beach and learn about deposition, weathering, and erosion.

Indiana Dunes National Park

West Beach Walk

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Explore the dunes and experience the forces of nature that created them. Observe water, wind and waves in action and learn how they work together to form mountains of sand. Program availability: spring, summer, fall. Age group: Preschool - 3rd grade. Location: West Beach. Length: 1.0 - 1.5 hours.

Cape Cod National Seashore

Beaches in Motion - Coastal Vulnerability

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This Earth Science lesson includes classroom materials, field trip activities and a post assessment activity. The classroom lessons include Powerpoints, readings and activities to increase understanding of coastal processes. The beach activities offer place –based learning to observe and measure conditions to evaluate the vulnerability of a beach to erosion. The post assessment activity requires students to use a model to demonstrate a beaches response to different climate

Beach Debris Design Challenge

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Find out about watersheds and how to protect them.

Acadia National Park

Self Guided Sand Beach Scavenger Hunt

• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Sand Beach is an interesting place even in the winter. This scavenger hunt includes family friendly activities that can guide adventures together.

Yellowstone National Park

Atomic Elements and Archeology: Tracing Ancient Resource Access and Trade Routes Using XRF

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is one scientific tool archeologists use to study the chemical composition of artifacts found on a site. This lesson plan illustrates the method behind XRF and describes how the resulting data can illustrate where and how ancient peoples obtained resources, whether through local sources or trade. Este plan de clase con actividades incluido también está disponible en español.

Acadia National Park

Sedimentary Sleuths Program Planner

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This hands-on program takes place at Sand Beach and is an exploration of geological processes such as weathering and erosion. Interpretation of geologic and topographic maps is included.

Gateway National Recreation Area

Clean Shore Corps

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will perform a trash survey in their own neighborhood, then one at the beach at Gateway. After comparing the results of the two surveys, students will identify which trash is the most prevalent, and come up with ways to reduce the trash. Rangers will provide lesson plans and equipment for the beach pick up. Please note that this program requires transportation between two points within the park.

Indiana Dunes National Park

A Grain of Truth

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Explore the dunes and gain a personal experience of how they came to be. Observe how winds and powerful waves work to create and erode moving sand dunes. Hike the foredunes and beach to learn about the processes of dune building, glaciation, and erosion. Program availability: Spring-summer-fall. Age group: 4th grade and up. Location: West Beach. Length: 1.5 hours.

Indiana Dunes National Park

Secrets of Succession

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Experience and appreciate the variety of plant communities found in the dunes. Follow the legacy of early dunes scientist, Henry Chandler Cowles, and hike from the beach over foredunes and through forests. By exploring the environment, discover the forces that shape the dunes and produce this unique succession of plants. Program availabilty: Spring - summer - fall. Age group: 5th grade and up. Location: West Beach. Length: 1.5 - 2.0 hours.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Field Scope Citizen Science Projects

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In partnership with field scope, the park provides teachers and classrooms access to the data collected during citizen science student projects in the park.

Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail

Defense of a Nation: Maryland's Role in the War of 1812 - A Teacher's Guide

• Type: Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Information provided in this guide will help make teaching this important history easy and accessible. The guide presents the major players in the war, its major battles, direct quotes from eyewitnesses, and information on additional resources.

Water Hunt Maze Activity

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this activity, students will play a maze game to help them understand how water was collected in the past and the different methods of water collection. In addition to the activity materials provided, students will need access to two six-sided dice.

Acadia National Park

Sieur de Monts Scavenger Hunt

• Type: Student Activities ... Other Education Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Sieur de Monts has limited accessibility in the winter but can offer great flat locations to explore. Use this scavenger hunt to guide your experience. Fill out at least 3 activities to print the scavenger hunt certificate.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Cultural Dress

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Lewis Garrard's ten-month journey on the Santa Fe Trail put him in contact with a variety of southwestern cultures. This lesson offers insight into how cultural dress differed during the 1840s and was used to understand the wearer's society, class, occupation, and access to materials.

President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

Road Trip

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Working independently or as a group, students will be given a list of resources, a map of the United States depicting the locations of all National Park Service sites (as of 2016), a math compass, Internet access (for a Web quest), a graphic organizer (for optional use) and scratch paper for computations.

Glacier National Park

Native Harvest

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Discussion of the value of native plants and plants as cultural resources. Students have access to materials, library, internet to do plant research. Best if can also do field trip to park or other wild area to see native plants in their natural setting.

Acadia National Park

Ocean Path Scavenger Hunt: Girl Scout Edition

• Type: Student Activities
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

The Park Loop Road has many significant sites. Learn more about them and have fun making observations with a scavenger hunt along the Ocean Path Trail.