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Ask a Ranger at Big Bend National Park - All Grades
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Dive deeper into this remote desert wonderland with an interactive question-and-answer program for groups of all ages. Meet with a ranger to discuss various Big Bend topics. Let us know your interests, and we will tailor a program for you! (30-45 minutes)

Ecosystem Explorers: Three Parks in One!
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

From the Rio Grande to the Chisos Mountains to the Chihuahuan Desert, Big Bend National Park offers a unique opportunity to learn about diverse ecosystems. Join us and discover what makes Big Bend special! (30-45 minutes)

Big Bend National Park

Self-guided Field Trip
  • Type: Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The dynamic Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem of the Big Bend provides the perfect outdoor classroom for field studies.

Independence National Historical Park

Ben Franklin: What a Character!
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will examine Franklin's character traits using textual evidence and images.

The Battle of Horseshoe Bend: Collision of Cultures
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Consider the complex political and cultural differences that existed between European Americans and American Indians during the early 19th century and learn how these conflicting views ultimately affected the Creeks.

Rocky Mountain National Park

What are National Parks?
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

What is a National Park and what were they created to protect? Meet with a ranger to investigate the meaning behind each symbol within the National Park Service emblem and explore various NPS sites across the country.

What is a National Park?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students will analyze the arrowhead logo as an introduction to the National Park Service. Students learn how the design of the National Park Service arrowhead is made up of symbols, and then have a chance to create their own design specific to Hawai‘i. We will then be introducing ways that we can help care for our parks through the 7 Leave No Trace principles, and help students to understand that the National Parks belong to each and every one of us!

National Park of American Samoa

What is a National Park?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The National Park of American Samoa is one of over 400 units of the National Park Service. This activity helps students explore and understand the various units in the system.

Haleakalā National Park

What is a National Park?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students will analyze the arrowhead logo as an introduction to the National Park Service, an agency whose mission is to protect and preserve natural and cultural resources for future generations and provide visitors with opportunities for recreation and learning. Students learn how the design of the National Park Service arrowhead is made up of symbols, and then have a chance to create their own design specific to Hawai‘i.

Haleakalā National Park

What Is A National Park?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects special native habitats and how the students can help protect them too.

Haleakalā National Park

What Is A National Park?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to determine how Haleakalā National Park protects cultural and natural resources and how the students can help protect them too.

What National Park Is It?
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

This activity challenges students to look at different pictures of national park sites and try to guess which park the picture represents. The pictures page gives a distinguishing feature of each park and an interesting fact to help students match to the list of possible choices.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Symbolism in National Parks
  • Type: Distance Learning ... Primary Sources ... Student Activities
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

History of the iconic NPS Arrowhead logo, and a dive into what symbols are, and how we use them. Students will get activities to create their own symbols about their lives.

Glacier National Park

Create a National Park
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

Students create a mini-national park in a specified outdoor area, marking a nature trail and providing visitors with information about the park.

Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park

Our National Parks
  • Type: Distance Learning
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Learn the special role played by the National Park Service in preserving our shared natural, cultural, and historical heritage through the lens of the history of Paterson, New Jersey!

Everglades National Park

"Create a National Park" National Parks: 4-6 Grade
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this activity, students will create their own national park, while learning about the value of national parks.

Mississippi National River & Recreation Area

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

The Big River Journey is a great way for students to learn more about the Mississippi River. The award-winning program offers an integration of river and classroom experiences that connect 3rd-5th grade students with the science and heritage of the Mississippi River and promote stewardship.

First Ladies National Historic Site

Discover Ohio's National Parks
  • Type: Distance Learning ... Field Trips
  • Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

When you think of national parks, what do you think of? Do you think of presidential homes, airplanes, or buffalo soldiers? If not, this program will teach your group about the eight national parks and what role they play in the great diversity of sites in the National Park Service.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

Buffalo Soldiers & National Parks
  • Type: Guest Speakers
  • Grade Levels: Adult Education

Before the creation of the National Park Service, the US Army were assigned to manage national parks. This included the Buffalo Soldiers who were assigned to protect parks such as Yosemite, General Grant, and Sequoia National Parks. Discover the legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers in our National Parks and how their contribution across the American landscape continues to be captured and preserved for future generations to learn and explore.

Glacier National Park

National Park Service Symbols
  • Type: Lesson Plan
  • Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

Students learn how the design of the National Park Service arrowhead is made up of symbols then have a chance to create their own design.