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Virtual Tour of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Welcome to Bering Land Bridge National Preserve! Join us from the comfort of your own classroom as we explore one of the nation’s most remote national park units. Learn about the rugged and wild landscape of the tundra and what it takes for plants and animals to survive in this challenging environment.
Uncovering Beringia: The Lost Continent
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Life in the Arctic
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Erosion: Washing Away the Earth
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Erosion can be a major issue. It is caused by a number of factors, both manmade and natural. The effects of erosion are very evident on Arctic coastal villages that are experiencing storm surges and no longer have the added protection of longer lasting sea ice. Research indicates that both the storm surges and lost of sea ice are the result of climate change.
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
By studying change over time in their local community, students will realize that where they live has its own unique history, and different factors contributed to its current state. Students will also understand how to collect and interpret this information and comprehend the value of living people as key information holders in historical research.
This Land is Your Land
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
This Land is Your Land is an interesting and aggressive lesson that incorporates research, hands on activities and on-site learning to illustrate and reinforce how the geographic features of Upstate South Carolina contributed to the Patriot strategy in their ultimate success at the Battle of Cowpens, 1781
Bridging the Watershed-4th Grade
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Low Bridge, Everybody Down
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Land Use
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
In "Land Use," students discuss how people live and survive in their environments. The Homesteaders, Immigrants, and Native Americans unit is broken up into five lesson plans, taking 45-120 minutes to complete, targeting sixth through eighth grade students. A class does not have to complete every lesson in the unit - each lesson comes with its own set of objectives and resources. This is lesson 3 of the unit.
Stewards of the Land
- Type: Lesson Plan
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
Students learn about the four main tribes associated with the Glacier area. Then watch videos with tribal leaders and elders talking about their tribe’s relationship to Glacier National Park and why they feel it’s important to take care of the park. Students will reflect/discuss messages in the videos and write a contemporary story that teaches about caring for the Earth. Homework: Student Reading 1: People and Glacier National Park.
I Notice I Wonder: Waterfall Bridge
The Sound of Buffalo Soldiers! A Musical Bridge to Communities
- Type: Guest Speakers
- Grade Levels: Adult Education
Lessons from the Land
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
How have Alaska Natives, gold rush prospectors, hunter-naturalists, and visitors to Denali National Park and Preserve made use of this land through time? Find out in this fun, history-rich program, where we explore multiple land-use perspectives from past to present, and ultimately look forward into the future.
Land of Many Opportunists
- Type: Student Activities
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Through this activity, students will learn how aggressive exotic species take advantage of a wide range of resources in order to expand their range and compete in a nonnative habitat.
In the Most Furious Manner: The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
What Happened After the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge?
Read with a Ranger: Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story
- Type: Distance Learning
- Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade
Read a book with a Park Ranger! Join us in reading Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story written by Ruby Bridges. In this book, Ruby Bridges tells her first-hand account of what it was like to be the first Black student to integrate a segregated school in New Orleans in 1961. The book briefly describes segregation and the obstacles she had to overcome to be able to go to school. Ruby Bridges then describes what her adult life has been like and encourages to be accepting
Self-Guided Field Trip to Cuyahoga Valley's Station Road Bridge Area
- Type: Field Trips
- Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade
The Station Road Bridge area is a great place to bring students to see and learn more about Ohio's only national park. From this location, students can see the Cuyahoga River, walk on the historic Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail, and maybe even spot a bald eagle, which are known to nest nearby. Introduce your students to the Cuyahoga Valley through this self-guided field trip.